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DBMS > LokiJS vs. QuestDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. QuestDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataSpatial extension of SQLiteA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSquestdb.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSquestdb.io/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperQuestDB Technology IncAlessandro FurieriAlex KashirinTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142014200820201987
Current release5.0.0, August 20200.5, April 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
server-lessLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnononoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID for single-table writesACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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LokiJSQuestDBSpatiaLiteSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTransbase
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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