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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. PostGIS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.07
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	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

SAP

formerly Sybase

Transwarp

Initial release

2014

2005

1992

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

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)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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