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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Netezza vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

opentsdb.net

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

IBM

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SADAS s.r.l.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2000

2011

2006

2019

Current release

8.0

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT 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

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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LokiJS - A JavaScript Database
18 November 2014, iProgrammer

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8 July 2016, iProgrammer

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1 August 2023, The Register

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27 May 2020, AWS Blog

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29 June 2020, Datanami

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