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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. Prometheus vs. SAP IQ vs. Transbase

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.orgprometheus.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationprometheus.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperMonetDB BVSAP, formerly SybaseTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142004201519941987
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 202316.1 SPS04, April 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCGoC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Rnoyesyes
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infoby FederationSAP/Sybase Replication ServerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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