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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Spark SQL vs. TerarkDB vs. TigerGraph vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

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

Primary database model

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Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.tigergraph.com

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

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

docs.tigergraph.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

ByteDance, originally Terark

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2016

2017

2019

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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 DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Python
R
Scala

C++
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Role-based access control

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