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DBMS > Altibase vs. Datomic vs. jBASE vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Datomic vs. jBASE vs. LokiJS

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.datomic.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.datomic.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9techfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAltibaseCognitectRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release1999201219912014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0.7075, December 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ClojureJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infoTransaction FunctionsyesView functions in JavaScript
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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