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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Brytlyt vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. Teradata Aster

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.38
Rank#279  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltbrytlyt.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.brytlyt.iospotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperBrytlytSpotifyTeradata
Initial release20132016201420142005
Current release5.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++ and CUDAJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLnoView functions in JavaScriptR packages
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesnoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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