DBMS > Lovefield vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sequoiadb vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sequoiadb vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

origodb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sequoiadb.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

origodb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Google

Robert Friberg et al

SAP

formerly Sybase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

1992

2013

2014

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

17, July 2015

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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