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

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn embedded key-value store for Go.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAltibaseKineticaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19992013201220142018
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20237.1, August 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC, C++JavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
GoC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoRole-based access control

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