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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak TS vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Softmotions

Oracle

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2012

2014

2011

2015

Current release

23.3, December 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

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

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

restricted

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, limited

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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