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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. LokiJS vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2004

2014

2011

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

.Net

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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