DBMS > Lovefield vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.33
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Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
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Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
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Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
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Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

rethinkdb.com

spark.apache.org/sql

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Google

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2009

2015

2014

1987

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

2.4.1, August 2020

3.0.0, September 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Erlang

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes, limited

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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