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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. LokiJS vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.objectbox.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2005

2014

2017

1984

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

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

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate 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

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

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

Users and groups

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DB-Engines blog posts

New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript
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