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DBMS > LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Transbase

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.orgopentsdb.netwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperMonetDB BVcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2014200420111987
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Rnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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