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

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

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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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
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSyottadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikispotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperRackspaceSpotifyYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20132013201420142001
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnono
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 indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScriptC
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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