DBMS > Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

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Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/boltdb/bolt

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Rackspace

Google

Spotify

Initial release

2013

2010

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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