DBMS > JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. Trafodion

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used open source RDBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	5.71
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.mysql.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

dev.mysql.com/doc

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2018

2014

2015

1995

2014

Current release

0.8, December 2018

8.3.0, January 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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