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DBMS > LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Tarantool vs. Tkrzw vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Tarantool vs. Tkrzw vs. Yaacomo

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.comwww.tarantool.iodbmx.net/­tkrzwyaacomo.com
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperSequoiadb Ltd.VKMikio HirabayashiQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20142013200820202009
Current release2.10.0, May 20220.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimenoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageFull-featured ANSI SQL supportnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSONOpen binary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptJavaScriptLua, C and SQL stored proceduresno
Triggersyesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.nonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleDocument is locked during a transactionACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, cooperative multitaskingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes, write ahead loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceyes infousing specific database classesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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