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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

postgis.net

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Google

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

TempoIQ

Initial release

2014

2005

2009

2011

2012

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.4.2, February 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, using Riak Security

simple authentication-based access control

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