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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. RavenDB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.34
Rank	#272	Overall
	#43	Document stores

Score	2.50
Rank	#102	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	2.38
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

ravendb.net

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

ravendb.net/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Hibernating Rhinos

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2014

2010

2009

Current release

5.4, July 2022

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

User concepts

Access control

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes

users and table-level permissions

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