DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. LokiJS vs. openGauss vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. LokiJS vs. openGauss vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

iotdb.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Huawei and openGauss community

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2018

2014

2019

2012

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

3.0, March 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

C, C++, Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
Native API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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

yes

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