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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

pouchdb.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

pouchdb.com/guides

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Google

Apache Software Foundation

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2014

2012

2018

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

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