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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. LokiJS vs. OpenQM vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
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Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2023

2014

1993

1987

Current release

3.4-12

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

free development license

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 and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

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

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

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

yes

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

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