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

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

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

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.voltdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Mikio Hirabayashi

VoltDB Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2014

2013

2020

2010

2009

Current release

0.9.3, August 2020

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

for development

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

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

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

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

Snapshots and command logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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