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

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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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Time Series 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	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.objectbox.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Progress Software Corporation

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2017

1984

1994

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

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

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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

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

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

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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