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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. OrigoDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

origodb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

origodb.com/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Robert Friberg et al

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

2011

Current release

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

.Net

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

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

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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