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DBMS > Lovefield vs. PostGIS vs. Teradata vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. PostGIS vs. Teradata vs. VelocityDB

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldpostgis.netwww.teradata.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.teradata.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGoogleTeradataVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2014200519842011
Current release2.1.12, February 20173.4.2, February 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safarihosted
Linux
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelno
TriggersUsing read-only observersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoHashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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