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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

2015

Current release

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate 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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript
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