DBMS > Dolt vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle vs. SAP HANA vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle vs. SAP HANA vs. YDB

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/hana

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Oracle

SAP

Yandex

Initial release

2018

2014

1980

2010

2019

Current release

23c, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

View functions in JavaScript

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

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.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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