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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Datomic vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

www.datomic.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.datomic.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Cognitect

Embarcadero

Initial release

2014

2012

1984

2014

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Clojure

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Interbase Change Views

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

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

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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