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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. LokiJS

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphAn embedded key-value store for Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitebangdb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.datomic.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBCognitectCCRi and others
Initial release20122013201220142014
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20211.0.6735, June 20235.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++GoJava, ClojureScalaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesyesno
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 indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnononono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
GoClojure
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noBy using transaction functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)nonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglynoneImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layernone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes 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.yes, run db with in-memory only modenoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)nonoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno

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