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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. LokiJS vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

origodb.com

rdf4j.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

origodb.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Robert Friberg et al

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

2004

2020

Current release

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net

Java
PHP
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

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

depending on model

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

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

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Role based authorization

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