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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.splunk.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Sybase, SAP

Splunk Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

1993

2003

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Multi-source 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

Eventual Consistency

none

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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