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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. BoltDB vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. PostgreSQL

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

An embedded key-value store for Go.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#11	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	636.25
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

github.com/boltdb/bolt

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.postgresql.org

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.postgresql.org/docs

Developer

ActiveViam

Konrad von Backstrom

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Initial release

2013

2018

2014

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

Current release

0.8, December 2018

16.3, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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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