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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. SpaceTime vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mireo.com/spacetime

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Google

Mireo

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2020

2018

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Python

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

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

yes

Role-based access control

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