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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. RavenDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. RavenDB vs. Transbase

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#101  Overall
#17  Document stores
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.orgravendb.netwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationravendb.net/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperMicrosoftMonetDB BVHibernating RhinosTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20102014200420101987
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20235.4, July 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CJavaScriptCC#C and C++
Server operating systems.NETserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language (RQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJavaScript APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Ryesyes
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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