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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. FatDB vs. LokiJS

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.ehcache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.ehcache.org/documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

FatCloud

Initial release

2014

2013

2009

2012

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JCache

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

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

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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