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

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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLIn-memory JavaScript DBMSPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph 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/­LokiJSgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.brytlyt.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperBrytlytTeradataAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20132016201420052012
Current release5.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++ and CUDAJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLView functions in JavaScriptR packagesyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
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-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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