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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. RDFox vs. XTDB

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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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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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	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

origodb.com/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2017

2019

Current release

4.4, October 2021

6.0, Septermber 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Clojure

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
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Roles, resources, and access types

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