DBMS > LokiJS vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. WakandaDB

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Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sqlite.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2000

2023

2012

Current release

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

1.0, May 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

server-less

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

Vector, Numeric and String

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-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Java
Python

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

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

via file-system locks

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes

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