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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. OpenQM vs. Postgres-XL vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.postgres-xl.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

1993

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2015

Current release

3.4-12

10 R1, October 2018

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

MVCC

multiple readers, single writer

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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