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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerminusDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com

terminusdb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Sequoiadb Ltd.

DataChemist Ltd.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

2013

2018

2001

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual 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

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

optimistic locking

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

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

simple password-based access control

Role-based access control

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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