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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. HyperSQL vs. LokiJS vs. SQLite vs. Yanza

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMSWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbhsqldb.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sqlite.orgyanza.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperSoftmotionsDwayne Richard HippYanza
Initial release20122001201420002015
Current release2.7.2, June 20233.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoPublic Domaincommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsserver-lessAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.no
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
JavaScriptActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonono

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