DBMS > LokiJS vs. NuoDB vs. openGemini vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. NuoDB vs. openGemini vs. Snowflake

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Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

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

Primary database model

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Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

doc.nuodb.com

docs.opengemini.org/guide

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Huawei and openGemini community

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2013

2022

2014

Current release

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Administrators and common users accounts

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

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