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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Dolt vs. Heroic vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.95
Rank#197  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
github.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.dolthub.comspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperDoltHub IncSpotifyDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20132018201420152014
Current release3.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-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 SQLnoyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infocurrently in alpha releasenonoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.yesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonono 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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startuprights management via user accountsno

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