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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. LokiJS

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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeDocument store
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSpotifyHypertable Inc.
Initial release20132009201420092014
Current release3.10.0, March 20220.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsJCacheHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoJavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesselectable replication factor on file system levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenonono 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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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