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

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Name	AlaSQL  Xexclude from comparison	Infobright  Xexclude from comparison	LokiJS  Xexclude from comparison	SiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	JavaScript DBMS library	High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend	In-memory JavaScript DBMS	Open Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database model	Document store Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Document store	Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.54 Rank #228   Overall #35   Document stores #108   Relational DBMS	Score 1.03 Rank #174   Overall #84   Relational DBMS	Score 0.53 Rank #233   Overall #36   Document stores	Score 0.00 Rank #356   Overall #32   Time Series DBMS
Website	alasql.org	ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb	github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS	siridb.net
Technical documentation	github.com/­agershun/­alasql		techfort.github.io/­LokiJS	docs.siridb.net
Developer	Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff	Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.		Cesbit
Initial release	2014	2005	2014	2017
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source MIT-License	commercial The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016	Open Source	Open Source MIT License
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	JavaScript	C	JavaScript	C
Server operating systems	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)	Linux Windows	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)	Linux
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	no	yes Numeric data
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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	no Knowledge Grid Technology used instead	yes via views	yes
SQL Support of SQL	Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.	yes	no	no
APIs and other access methods	JavaScript API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	JavaScript API	HTTP API
Supported programming languages	JavaScript	.Net C C# C++ D Eiffel Erlang Haskell Java Objective-C OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby Scheme Tcl	JavaScript	C C++ Go Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	View functions in JavaScript	no
Triggers	yes	no	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	none	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	Source-replica replication	none	yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency	none
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes only for local storage and DOM-storage	ACID	no atomic operations within a single collection possible	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		yes		yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage	yes	yes Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	yes	yes	yes
User concepts Access control	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities	no	simple rights management via user accounts
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