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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splice Machine vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

splicemachine.com

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

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

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

Developer

Google

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splice Machine

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

1992

2014

1987

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

17, July 2015

3.1, March 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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