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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. NSDb

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

IBM

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

1983

host version

2018

2014

2017

Current release

12.1, October 2016

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

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

using RocksDB

yes

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

Using Apache Lucene

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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