DBMS > LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

rockset.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Rockset

Initial release

2014

2010

2009

2019

Current release

V12

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Transact SQL

Erlang

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with always 3 replicas available

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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