DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#159	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	4.15
Rank	#70	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#8	Search engines

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.progress.com/marklogic

www.sequoiadb.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

MarkLogic Corp.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2018

2014

2001

2013

2012

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

JavaScript API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

proprietary protocol using JSON

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

none

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Document is locked during a transaction

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

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

simple password-based access control

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