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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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

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Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

doc.quasar.ai/master

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

Developer

quasardb

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

2009

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

with tags

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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 LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes, using Riak Security

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