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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. LokiJS vs. SpatiaLite vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2015

2014

2008

2020

1987

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

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

server-less

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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