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Lovefield vs Sequelize: What are the differences?
What is Lovefield? A relational database for web apps, by Google. Written in JavaScript, works cross-browser. Provides SQL-like APIs that are fast, safe, and easy to use.
What is Sequelize? Easy-to-use multi sql dialect ORM for Node.js & io.js. Sequelize is a promise-based ORM for Node.js and io.js. It supports the dialects PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and MSSQL and features solid transaction support, relations, read replication and more.
Lovefield and Sequelize are primarily classified as "Databases" and "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)" tools respectively.
Lovefield and Sequelize are both open source tools. It seems that Sequelize with 18.9K GitHub stars and 2.99K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Lovefield with 6.1K GitHub stars and 384 GitHub forks.
Pros of Lovefield
- Relational database2
- No servers1
Pros of Sequelize
- Good ORM for node.js42
- Easy setup31
- Support MySQL & MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Sqlite21
- Open source14
- Free13
- Promise Based12
- Recommend for mongoose users4
- Typescript3
- Atrocious documentation, buggy, issues closed by bots3
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Cons of Lovefield
- Limited memory store1
Cons of Sequelize
- Docs are awful30
- Relations can be confusing10