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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LokiJS vs. SQLite vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sqlite.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

IBM

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2014

2000

2019

Current release

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

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

server-less

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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