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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Galaxybase vs. LokiJS vs. OrigoDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineGraph DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgalaxybase.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSorigodb.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperElasticChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Robert Friberg et al
Initial release20132010201720142009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release8.6, January 2023Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC and JavaJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentStrong typed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoUser defined using .NET types and collections
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JavaScript API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
JavaScript.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined procedures and functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlnoRole based authorization

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