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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Rockset vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

rockset.com

www.sqlite.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

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

docs.rockset.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Google

Rockset

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transwarp

Initial release

2014

2019

2000

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a 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

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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