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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. LokiJS vs. ObjectBox vs. OrigoDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricIn-memory JavaScript DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeObject oriented DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSobjectbox.ioorigodb.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.objectbox.ioorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperElasticObjectBox LimitedRobert Friberg et al
Initial release2010201420172009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release8.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC and C++C#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript APIProprietary native API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesdepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesRole based authorization
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