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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SQL.JS

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Konrad von Backstrom

Oracle

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2018

2014

2011

2012

Current release

0.8, December 2018

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Open Source

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

JavaScript

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

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

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

no

no

optional

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.

no

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

no

no

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

no

no

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

no

no

Triggers

yes

no

yes

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

none

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

none

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

yes

with Hadoop integration

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

no

no

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

no

atomic operations within a single collection possible

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

using RocksDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

no

Access rights for users and roles

no

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