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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.snowflake.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2014

1984

2014

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

HP Open VMS

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

yes, on a single node

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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