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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SWC-DB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

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

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2016

1993

2020

2017

Current release

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

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

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

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

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
PHP

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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