DBMS > AlaSQL vs. LokiJS vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. LokiJS vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

objectbox.io

www.progress.com/openedge

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.objectbox.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

ObjectBox Limited

Progress Software Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

1984

2013

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

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

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

yes

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users and groups

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