DBMS > LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.monetdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

MonetDB BV

SAP, formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2004

1994

2000

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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 2003 with some extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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