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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

www.postgres-xl.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

origodb.com/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2018

Current release

4.4, October 2021

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

none

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

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

MVCC

Atomic execution of operations

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

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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