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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Cubrid vs. LokiJS vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2013

2008

2014

2010

Current release

11.0, January 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

Java, C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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