DBMS > Graph Engine vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.62
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.graphengine.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2010

2014

2009

2006

2020

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

8.0

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

JavaScript

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

.NET

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

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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