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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Brytlyt vs. Hypertable vs. LokiJS vs. Teradata Aster

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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.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 PostgreSQLAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMSPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltbrytlyt.iogithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.brytlyt.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperBrytlytHypertable Inc.Teradata
Initial release20132016200920142005
Current release5.0, August 20230.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++ and CUDAC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
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 datenoyesnonoyes
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.noyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Thrift
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
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 replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneyes 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 methodsnonoyesyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate 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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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