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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. TerminusDB vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

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

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

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

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	4.06
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

terminusdb.com

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.timescale.com

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

DataChemist Ltd.

Timescale

Initial release

2014

2009

2018

2017

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

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

JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Graph Partitioning

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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 journaling

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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