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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  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 developmentTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.coveo.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.coveo.comspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperCoveoSpotifyKinetica
Initial release20132012201420122014
Current release7.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC, C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxserver-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-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnonono 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.nonoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnogranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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