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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenQM vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

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

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Microsoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2015

1993

2010

Current release

3.4-12

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

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

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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