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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. LokiJS vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Chris Davis

Alex Kashirin

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2006

2014

2020

2010

Current release

0.5, April 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

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

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

C++

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

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

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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