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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ehcache vs. LMDB vs. LokiJS vs. Teradata

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score4.79
Rank#66  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.94
Rank#120  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score41.47
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.ehcache.orgwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­doctechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSymasTeradata
Initial release20142009201120141984
Current release3.10.0, March 20220.9.32, January 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaCJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnononoyes infovia viewsyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJCacheJavaScript API.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
JavaScriptC
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScriptyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernonenoneSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServernonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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