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

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

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

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#204	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.monetdb.org

surrealdb.com

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

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

surrealdb.com/docs

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

Developer

MonetDB BV

SurrealDB Ltd

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2004

2022

1987

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

v1.1.1, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

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

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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