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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. LokiJS

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAn embedded key-value store for Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.datomic.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCognitect
Initial release2014201320122014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava, ClojureJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
GoClojure
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes 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.yesnoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynonono

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