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DBMS > Badger vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. Memcached

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.An embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.14
Rank#328  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperDGraph LabsSpotifyDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20172013201420142003
Current release1.6.29, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoJavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnono
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 indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoGoJavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
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.no
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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