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DBMS > BoltDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. LokiJS vs. Teradata Aster vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. LokiJS vs. Teradata Aster vs. Tigris

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.In-memory JavaScript DBMSPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelKey-value storeEvent StoreDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.eventstore.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedTeradataTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20132012201420052022
Current release21.2, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptR packagesno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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