DBMS > LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. mSQL vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. mSQL vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.monetdb.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.snowflake.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

MonetDB BV

Hughes Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2004

1994

2014

1987

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

4.4, October 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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