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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document store
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score60.38
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcloud.google.com/­bigquerygithub.com/­spotify/­heroicjsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperGoogleSpotifyKonrad von Backstrom
Initial release20132010201420182014
Current release0.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin JavaScriptnofunctions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes 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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)no

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