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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSpotifyDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20122013201420152014
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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 indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC++GoC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes 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.Depending on the underlying data sourcenononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenorights management via user accountsno

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