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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BoltDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn embedded key-value store for Go.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltboilerbay.comwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAltibaseBoiler Bay Inc.Kinetica
Initial release19992013200220122014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20234.07.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoJavaC, C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
GoJavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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