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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. LokiJS vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2014

2018

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

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)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

JavaScript
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

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

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

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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