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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

pouchdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

pouchdb.com/guides

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2012

2009

2011

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

3.2.0, December 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

Any that supports .NET

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

via views

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.Net

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

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

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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, using Riak Security

Based on Windows Authentication

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