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DBMS > Lovefield vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

2012

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

10 R1, October 2018

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

no

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.

no

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

no

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

C++ API
Java API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

user defined functions

no

no

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

yes

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

MVCC

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

no

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

no

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