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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.89
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Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Spotify

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2014

2013

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

no

yes

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

no

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

View functions in JavaScript

Java, SQL

no

Triggers

no

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

yes

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

no

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

yes

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

no

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