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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HyperSQL vs. LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

hsqldb.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.postgres-xl.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2001

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2018

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

10 R1, October 2018

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

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

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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