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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. H2 vs. LokiJS vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.h2database.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DGraph Labs

Thomas Mueller

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2014

2017

2005

2014

2011

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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, 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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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