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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. Sadas Engine vs. SurrealDB

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.marklogic.comwww.sadasengine.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingrestechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.marklogic.comwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperActian CorporationMarkLogic Corp.SADAS s.r.l.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2014200120062022
Current release11.2, May 202211.0, December 20228.0v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++C++Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL92yesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JavaScript APIJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatornoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes, with Range Indexesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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