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

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

atoti.io

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

docs.dolthub.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

ActiveViam

DoltHub Inc

Spotify

Initial release

2013

2018

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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 Elasticsearch

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

currently in alpha release

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

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.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

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