DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#278	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

yanza.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Cloudflare

Softmotions

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2018

2012

2014

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

server-less

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

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

in-process shared library

JavaScript API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

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