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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. SiteWhere vs. SurrealDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#174	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

surrealdb.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Google

SiteWhere

SurrealDB Ltd

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2010

2022

2018

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

v1.5.0, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Rust

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Role-based access control

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