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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Sadas Engine vs. SingleStore vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com

www.singlestore.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

SADAS s.r.l.

SingleStore Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2006

2013

2018

Current release

8.0

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C++, Go

Scala

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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