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DBMS > LokiJS vs. Splice Machine vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Splice Machine vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSsplicemachine.comterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperSplice MachineDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release2014201420182011
Current release3.1, March 202111.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes infoJavayesno
TriggersyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesYes, via Full Spark Integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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