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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. Fauna vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ehcache.orgfauna.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.fauna.comspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFauna, Inc.Spotify
Initial release20132009201420142014
Current release3.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScalaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesno
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 indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsJCacheRESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoJavaC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverhorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes 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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlno

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