DBMS > LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Microsoft

Mireo

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2015

2020

1987

Current release

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Python

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

yes

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

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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