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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. LokiJS vs. Sadas Engine vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
RDF store

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
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Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

SADAS s.r.l.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2014

2006

2018

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

8.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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