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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. HBase vs. LokiJS vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

hbase.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2023

2008

2014

2013

Current release

1.0, March 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

scheme-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Coprocessors in Java

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

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 or Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

atomic operations within a single collection possible

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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