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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. LokiJS vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#331	Overall
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Score	0.41
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#388	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Softmotions

Initial release

2012

2014

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

server-less

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

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

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 operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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.

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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