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DBMS > Lovefield vs. RDF4J vs. SiteWhere vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. RDF4J vs. SiteWhere vs. SurrealDB

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldrdf4j.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresurrealdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdrdf4j.org/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SiteWhereSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2014200420102022
Current release2.1.12, February 2017v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaRust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemaspredefined schemeschema-free
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP RESTGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes
TriggersUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes, based on authentication and database rules

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