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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. RRDtool vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

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

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

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

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Tobias Oetiker

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2009

1999

2018

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

1.8.0, 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

in-process shared library
Pipes

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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 journaling

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

Role-based access control

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