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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. Derby vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

db.apache.org/derby

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2023

1997

2015

2014

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

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

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

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

rights management via user accounts

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