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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. LokiJS vs. Sadas Engine vs. Tarantool vs. VelocityDB

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NameKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.In-memory JavaScript DBMSSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sadasengine.comwww.tarantool.iovelocitydb.com
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.SADAS s.r.l.VKVelocityDB Inc
Initial release19992014200620082011
Current releaseV8.0, August 20218.02.10.0, May 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaScriptC++C and C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoyesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Open binary protocol.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnoLua, C and SQL stored proceduresno
Triggersyesyesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonehorizontal partitioningSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
Based on Windows Authentication

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