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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. LokiJS vs. Lovefield vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

google.github.io/lovefield

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

IBM

Google

Yandex

Initial release

1983

host version

2014

2023

Current release

12.1, October 2016

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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