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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. SQream DB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
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Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

sqream.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

docs.sqream.com

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SQream Technologies

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2009

2017

2018

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Scala

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

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