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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. InfinityDB vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.36
Rank	#269	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

boilerbay.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

2023

2002

2014

Current release

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

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