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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ehcache vs. Infobright vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	5.23
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.00
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

www.ehcache.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.ehcache.org/documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Initial release

2014

2009

2005

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
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.

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

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

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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