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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. LokiJS vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

basex.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.basex.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BaseX GmbH

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

2007

2014

2016

Current release

10.7, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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.

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

JavaScript

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

multiple readers, single writer

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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