DBMS > LokiJS vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.objectbox.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Progress Software Corporation

SAP

Initial release

2014

2017

1984

2010

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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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)

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Source-replica replication

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

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

yes

Users and groups

yes

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