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

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document 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
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicignite.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikispotify.github.io/­heroicapacheignite.readme.io/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperRackspaceSpotifyApache Software Foundation
Initial release20132013201420152014
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaC++, Java, .NetJavaScript
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-freeschema-freeyesschema-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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
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 Cassandranoneyesyes (replicated cache)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACIDno 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.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno

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