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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LokiJS vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

origodb.com/docs

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Kyligence, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2010

2016

2014

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

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

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role based authorization

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