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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Actian Corporation

Transaction Software GmbH

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

1987

2019

Current release

11.2, May 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

none

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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