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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
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Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#155  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperCognitectGridGain Systems, Inc.Spotify
Initial release20132012200720142014
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes (replicated cache)yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes 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.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno

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