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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

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

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

doc.nuodb.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2013

2014

2013

2014

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

tunable commit protocol

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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