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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS vs. Netezza vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS vs. Netezza vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)In-memory JavaScript DBMSData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#331  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score7.56
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSoftmotionsIBMDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20142012201420002018
Current release11.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infoincluded in applianceLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyesyes
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 indexesnonoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIin-process shared libraryJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
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 infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access control

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