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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. ObjectBox vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

objectbox.io

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.objectbox.io

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2017

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

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