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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Lovefield vs. Newts vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

google.github.io/lovefield

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Google

OpenNMS Group

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2014

1993

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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