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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2013

2014

2015

2004

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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 storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

yes

using Azure authentication

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