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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. SpaceTime vs. Splice Machine vs. TempoIQ vs. TimesTen

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mireo.com/spacetime

splicemachine.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Google

Mireo

Splice Machine

TempoIQ

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2014

2020

2014

2012

1998

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.1, March 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Python

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

PL/SQL

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source 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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

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

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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