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DBMS > BoltDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Lovefield vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Lovefield vs. TerminusDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeEvent StoreRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.07
Rank#181  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.eventstore.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedGoogleDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2013201220142018
Current release21.2, February 20212.1.12, February 201711.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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 indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access control

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