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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sequoiadb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Google

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2014

2013

2008

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud 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

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

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