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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2021

2007

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

configurable

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

optionally

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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