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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Citus vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Citus vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Prometheus

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.citusdata.comjsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSprometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperKonrad von Backstrom
Initial release20132010201820142015
Current release8.1, December 20180.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonoNumeric data only
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 functionalitynonono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptJavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnonenoneyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes 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-standardnono

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