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DBMS > LokiJS vs. mSQL vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. mSQL vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJShughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlrockset.com
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesRockset
Initial release2014199420092019
Current release4.4, October 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCErlangC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnodynamic typing
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesrestrictedall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnoErlangno
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyes
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.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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