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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Cachelot.io vs. LokiJS vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

In-memory caching system

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#64	Key-value stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

blueflood.io

cachelot.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Rackspace

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2013

2015

2014

2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

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

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

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 views

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Memcached protocol

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

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