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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.52
Rank	#114	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2014

1994

2006

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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