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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. Riak TS vs. WakandaDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

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Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

wakanda.github.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Spotify

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Wakanda SAS

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2015

2012

2015

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Erlang

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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 Elasticsearch

yes

via views

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

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

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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

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

yes

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