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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. SQL.JS vs. TypeDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

sql.js.org

typedb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Google

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Vaticle

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2012

2016

2015

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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