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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

hsqldb.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Initial release

2001

2014

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

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

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

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

Data scheme

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 views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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.

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

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New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript
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