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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sphinx vs. Trafodion vs. Vitess

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsphinxsearch.comtrafodion.apache.orgvitess.io
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Sphinx Technologies Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20141984200120142013
Current release7.4.1.1, 20213.5.1, February 20232.3.0, February 201915.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)HP Open VMSFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoJava Stored Proceduresyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes, via HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes, on a single nodenoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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