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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. SwayDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

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

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

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

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

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

swaydb.simer.au

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Simer Plaha

Yandex

Initial release

2014

2009

2018

2023

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

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"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

yes

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

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

Access Control Lists

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