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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. BigObject vs. LokiJS vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

atoti.io

bigobject.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.atoti.io

docs.bigobject.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

ActiveViam

BigObject, Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2015

2014

1987

Current release

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free versions available

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
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.

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Lua

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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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