DBMS > LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

doc.quasar.ai/master

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

quasardb

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

2009

2001

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

via views

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

MVCC

ACID

optimistic locking

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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