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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. KeyDB vs. LokiJS vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.keydb.dev

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

2019

2014

2001

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux

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

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

JavaScript API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

JavaScript

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

atomic operations within a single collection possible

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control and ACL

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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