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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. NCache vs. OpenEdge vs. OrigoDB vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.progress.com/openedge

origodb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Alachisoft

Progress Software Corporation

Robert Friberg et al

Teradata

Initial release

2014

2005

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

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

Write ahead log

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Users and groups

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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