DBMS > LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Netezza vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Netezza vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Microsoft

IBM

quasardb

Initial release

2014

1989

2000

2009

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

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

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

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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