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DBMS > LokiJS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Prometheus vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Prometheus vs. RocksDB

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSWidely used in-process key-value storeOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score1.88
Rank#130  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlprometheus.iorocksdb.org
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleFacebook, Inc.
Initial release2014199420152013
Current release18.1.40, May 20209.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)GoC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoNumeric data onlyno
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyesyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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