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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. searchxml vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

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Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

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

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Google

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

2015

2023

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

1.0

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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

Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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