DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/spotify/heroic

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Spotify

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2012

2014

2018

2014

Current release

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Data scheme

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

restricted

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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