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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. RethinkDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

rethinkdb.com

www.sadasengine.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SADAS s.r.l.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2009

2006

2011

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

8.0

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.Net

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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