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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. OrientDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

orientdb.org

www.sadasengine.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

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

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SADAS s.r.l.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2010

2006

2011

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

8.0

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

AIX
Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.Net

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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