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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. LokiJS vs. Quasardb vs. TerminusDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
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	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

quasar.ai

terminusdb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

doc.quasar.ai/master

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

quasardb

DataChemist Ltd.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2009

2018

2012

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Prolog, Rust

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Journaling Streams

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

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

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

by using LevelDB

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Role-based access control

yes

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