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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. LokiJS vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. LokiJS vs. Valentina Server

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceIn-memory JavaScript DBMSObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsParadigma Software
Initial release2013202320141999
Current release1.0, March 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJavaScript APIODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC
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
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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