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System Properties Comparison Kuzu vs. LokiJS vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.01
Rank	#380	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

kuzudb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

Technical documentation

docs.kuzudb.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

Developer

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2022

2014

1987

Current release

0.4.2, May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT license

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

CLI Client
Cypher Query Language

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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