DBMS > Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. MySQL

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

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Rackspace

Spotify

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2013

2014

1995

Current release

8.3.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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