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

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Name

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

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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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

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

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

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

doc.nuodb.com

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

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2013

2014

2013

1987

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java, SQL

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

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

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

yes

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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