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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. LokiJS vs. NCache vs. SAP IQ vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

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

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Esgyn

Alachisoft

SAP, formerly Sybase

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2015

2014

2005

1994

2010

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

JavaScript

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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