DBMS > AlaSQL vs. LokiJS vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. LokiJS vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.15
Rank	#69	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

help.sap.com/hana

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

SAP

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2014

2010

2015

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Key customers

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