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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. LokiJS vs. OrigoDB vs. TerminusDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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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	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

origodb.com

terminusdb.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

origodb.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Robert Friberg et al

DataChemist Ltd.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

2018

2010

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Java, C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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 (WOQL)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net

JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Java

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

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
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

depending on model

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

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

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

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 journaling

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Role-based access control

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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