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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Spatial extension of SQLite

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Google

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Alessandro Furieri

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2017

2008

2000

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

6.0, Septermber 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Roles, resources, and access types

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