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

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraAn embedded key-value store for Go.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
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Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperRackspaceGridGain Systems, Inc.Spotify
Initial release20132013200720142014
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyes (replicated cache)yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno

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