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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSobjectbox.iowww.snowflake.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.objectbox.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedSnowflake Computing Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release2014201720142018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary native APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
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.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno
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