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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. mSQL vs. Solr vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

solr.apache.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2014

1994

2006

2008

Current release

4.4, October 2021

9.6.1, May 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

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

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

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

optimistic locking

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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