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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Softmotions

Ultipa

Initial release

2023

2012

2014

2019

Current release

1.0, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

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

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

in-process shared library

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Password-based authentication

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