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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. Stardog vs. VelocityDB

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.stardog.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingrestechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.stardog.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperActian CorporationStardog-UnionVelocityDB Inc
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201420102011
Current release11.2, May 20227.3.0, May 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptJavaC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 availablenono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JavaScript APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javano
Triggersyesyesyes infovia event handlersCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatornoneMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyes
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.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesBased on Windows Authentication

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