DBMS > LokiJS vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Spatial extension of SQLite

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
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Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.snowflake.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2008

2020

1987

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

server-less

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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