DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQLite vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQLite vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com

www.sqlite.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2014

2013

2000

1999

Current release

5.10, January 2022

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Linux

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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