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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. LokiJS vs. SAP IQ vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Softmotions

SAP, formerly Sybase

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

1994

2012

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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