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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Lovefield vs. MarkLogic vs. OpenQM vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

google.github.io/lovefield

www.progress.com/marklogic

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

origodb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Google

MarkLogic Corp.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2014

2001

1993

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

11.0, December 2022

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based authorization

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