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DBMS > Lovefield vs. Snowflake vs. Stardog vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Snowflake vs. Stardog vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. Vitess

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and OracleScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.14
Rank#341  Overall
#149  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.snowflake.comwww.stardog.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundbvitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.stardog.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperGoogleSnowflake Computing Inc.Stardog-UnionTranswarpThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2014201420102013
Current release2.1.12, February 20177.3.0, May 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafarihostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayesyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersUsing read-only observersno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes infovia event handlersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and rolesyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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