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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Cachelot.io vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Cachelot.io vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS vs. Yanza

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryIn-memory caching systemEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)In-memory JavaScript DBMSTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#64  Key-value stores
Score0.30
Rank#294  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgcachelot.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSyanza.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSoftmotionsYanza
Initial release20142015201220142015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Sourcecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++CJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lessserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnono
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIMemcached protocolin-process shared libraryJavaScript APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptany language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonoyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStoragenoyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononono

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