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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Coveo vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.coveo.comhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.coveo.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperCoveoApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSpotify
Initial release20132012200820142014
Current release2.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesno
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 indexesnoyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoCoprocessors in JavanoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnogranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno

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