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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. RDF4J

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrdf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSoftmotionsKineticaSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20142012201220142004
Current release7.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC, C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIin-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesno
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 possibleACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnono

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