DBMS > Apache Drill vs. LokiJS vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. LokiJS vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2014

2018

2001

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

hosted

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C++

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

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.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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