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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. ObjectBox vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeObject oriented DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSobjectbox.iorealm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.objectbox.iorealm.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20142017201420112018
Current release4.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++C#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary native API.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynoyes
Triggersyesnoyes infoChange Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and servernonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesyesnoRole-based access control
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