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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2015

2014

1992

Current release

3.3 July 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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