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

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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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Rackspace

Spotify

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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