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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

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Rank	#261	Overall
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Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2013

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

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

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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