DBMS > Badger vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

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Score	0.20
Rank	#307	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.41
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

DGraph Labs

Softmotions

Initial release

2017

2012

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

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

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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