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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Postgres-XL vs. TDengine vs. TerarkDB

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresTime Series DBMS and big data platformA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.32
Rank#290  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#109  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.tdengine.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperGoogleTDEngine, previously Taos DataByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20192016
Current release2.1.12, February 201710 R1, October 20183.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infodistributed, parallel query executionStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
TriggersUsing read-only observersyesyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCno
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 MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno
More information provided by the system vendor
LovefieldPostgres-XLTDengineTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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