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DBMS > Blueflood vs. InfinityDB vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. InfinityDB vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteblueflood.ioboilerbay.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpostgis.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperRackspaceBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release2013200220142005
Current release4.03.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemepredefined schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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