DBMS > Lovefield vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.searchxml.net/category/products

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

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

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Google

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

informationpartners gmbh

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2015

2017

2014

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.0.0, September 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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