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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. Interbase vs. Kuzu vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. Interbase vs. Kuzu vs. LokiJS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKuzu  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalabilityIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
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Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#402  Overall
#41  Graph DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasekuzudb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.kuzudb.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSoftmotionsEmbarcadero
Initial release20142012198420222014
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20190.4.2, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoMIT licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCCC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesno
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIin-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
Cypher Query Language
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneInterbase Change Viewsnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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