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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

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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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series 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

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

graphite.readthedocs.io

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Rackspace

Chris Davis

Spotify

Initial release

2013

2006

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix

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

Numeric data only

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API
Sockets

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

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

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