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DBMS > BoltDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Fauna vs. LokiJS vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Fauna vs. LokiJS vs. STSdb

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Fauna 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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeEvent StoreDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.eventstore.comfauna.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.fauna.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedFauna, Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20132012201420142011
Current release21.2, February 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoScalaJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJavaScript API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGoC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaScriptC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnono

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