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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. LokiJS vs. SQLite vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

brytlyt.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sqlite.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.brytlyt.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Brytlyt

Dwayne Richard Hipp

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2016

2014

2000

2011

Current release

5.0, August 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

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)

server-less

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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