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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. LokiJS vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

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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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2014

2020

2018

Current release

0.5, April 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

JavaScript

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

.NET

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript

C++

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

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 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

Role-based access control

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