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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

SAP

Alex Kashirin

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2010

2020

2018

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.5, April 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

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

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

Role-based access control

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