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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Stardog vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Stardog  Xexclude from comparison	VictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
		SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization	A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS RDF store	Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS		Score 2.07 Rank #122   Overall #11   Graph DBMS #6   RDF stores	Score 1.23 Rank #172   Overall #15   Time Series DBMS
Website	google.github.io/­lovefield	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.stardog.com	victoriametrics.com
Technical documentation	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md		docs.stardog.com	docs.victoriametrics.com github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
Developer	Google	Sybase, SAP	Stardog-Union	VictoriaMetrics
Initial release	2014	1993	2010	2018
Current release	2.1.12, February 2017		7.3.0, May 2020	v1.91, May 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial 60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students	Open Source Apache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	JavaScript		Java	Go
Server operating systems	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	Linux Windows	Linux macOS Windows	FreeBSD Linux macOS OpenBSD
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no Import/export of XML data possible	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	yes	Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server	no
APIs and other access methods		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	GraphQL query language HTTP API Jena RDF API OWL RDF4J API Sesame REST HTTP Protocol SNARL SPARQL Spring Data Stardog Studio TinkerPop 3	Graphite protocol InfluxDB Line Protocol OpenTSDB Prometheus Query API Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languages	JavaScript	Delphi Perl PHP	.Net Clojure Groovy Java JavaScript Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java	no
Triggers	Using read-only observers	yes	yes via event handlers	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster	Synchronous replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster	Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	yes relationships in graphs	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes using MemoryDB	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes	no
User concepts Access control	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Access rights for users and roles
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