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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. GridDB vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraAn embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgriddb.netgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.griddb.nettechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperRackspaceToshiba CorporationSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20132013201320141984
Current release5.1, August 20227.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampnoyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACID at container levelno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
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.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BluefloodBoltDBGridDBLokiJSMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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