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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Machbase Neo vs. ObjectBox vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

machbase.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

machbase.com/dbms

docs.objectbox.io

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Machbase

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2014

2013

2017

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like 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

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Proprietary native API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

yes

Role-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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17 September 2024

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11 September 2024

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24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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DB-Engines blog posts

New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript
1 December 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

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LokiJS - A JavaScript Database
18 November 2014, iProgrammer

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