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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. gStore vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

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

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

alasql.org

en.gstore.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2014

2016

2014

1994

Current release

1.2, November 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

JavaScript

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

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

Linux

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

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

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

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

JavaScript

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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