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DBMS > LokiJS vs. mSQL vs. PouchDB vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. mSQL vs. PouchDB vs. Tarantool

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJShughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlpouchdb.comwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guideswww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesApache Software FoundationVK
Initial release2014199420122008
Current release4.4, October 20217.1.1, June 20192.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnostring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoView functions in JavaScriptLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyesnoyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenonoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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