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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Lovefield vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQream DB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sequoiadb.com

sqream.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.sqream.com

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Google

Sequoiadb Ltd.

SQream Technologies

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

2013

2017

1999

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

2022.1.6, December 2022

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

user defined functions in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

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

Document is locked during a 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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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