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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. LokiJS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroichugegraph.apache.org/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifyBaidu
Initial release20131983201420182014
Current release19.4.1, November 20210.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnonono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoPHPGroovy
Java
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononovia hugegraph-sparkyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers, roles and permissionsno

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