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

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

origodb.com

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Robert Friberg et al

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

2020

Current release

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

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

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

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 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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