DBMS > Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. mSQL vs. SQLite vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. mSQL vs. SQLite vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sqlite.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Hazelcast

Hughes Technologies

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Rocket Software

Initial release

2008

2014

1994

2000

1985

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

4.4, October 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

optional

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

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

Role-based access control

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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