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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. CrateDB vs. LokiJS vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDistributed Database based on LuceneIn-memory JavaScript DBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgcratedb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcratedb.com/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCrateSiteWhereDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20142013201420102000
Current release3.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaScriptJavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freepredefined schemeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP RESTADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
JavaScriptActionscript
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)View functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno
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Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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