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LokiJS vs SAP HANA: What are the differences?
LokiJS: In-memory JavaScript Datastore with Persistence. LokiJS is a document oriented database written in javascript, published under MIT License. Its purpose is to store javascript objects as documents in a nosql fashion and retrieve them with a similar mechanism. Runs in node (including cordova/phonegap and node-webkit), nativescript and the browser; SAP HANA: *An in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system *. It is an application that uses in-memory database technology that allows the processing of massive amounts of real-time data in a short time. The in-memory computing engine allows it to process data stored in RAM as opposed to reading it from a disk.
LokiJS and SAP HANA can be categorized as "In-Memory Databases" tools.
LokiJS is an open source tool with 5K GitHub stars and 388 GitHub forks. Here's a link to LokiJS's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of LokiJS
- Can query the objects directly3
Pros of SAP HANA
- In-memory5
- SQL5
- Distributed4
- Performance4
- Realtime2
- Concurrent2
- OLAP2
- OLTP2
- JSON1