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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. CouchDB vs. Datomic vs. HBase vs. LokiJS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcouchdb.apache.orgwww.datomic.comhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.datomic.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerCognitectApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20132005201220082014
Current release3.3.3, December 20231.0.7075, December 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoErlangJava, ClojureJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Clojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnoyesBy using transaction functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno

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