DBMS > AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS vs. NSDb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS vs. NSDb vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

nsdb.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

nsdb.io/Architecture

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Softmotions

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2014

2017

2013

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

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

server-less

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

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

in-process shared library

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

JavaScript

Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual 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

yes

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.

Using Apache Lucene

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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