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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. jBASE vs. LokiJS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

1979

1991

2014

2000

Current release

V3, October 2020

5.7

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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