DBMS > LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. Speedb vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. Speedb vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.21
Rank	#315	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.marklogic.com

www.speedb.io

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.marklogic.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

MarkLogic Corp.

Speedb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2001

2020

2000

Current release

11.0, December 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

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

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

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

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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