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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. LokiJS vs. Machbase Neo vs. SQLite vs. XTDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryIn-memory JavaScript DBMSTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmachbase.comwww.sqlite.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmachbase.com/­dbmswww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMachbaseDwayne Richard HippJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20142014201320002019
Current releaseV8.0, August 20233.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Sourcecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScriptCCClojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
server-lessAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJavaScript APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factornoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.noyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple password-based access controlno

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