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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.84
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Score	133.72
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Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

www.snowflake.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

questdb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

QuestDB Technology Inc

Facebook, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2013

2014

2011

Current release

9.4.0, June 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

none

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 for single-table writes

yes

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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