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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Prometheus

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webjsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSprometheus.io
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJSprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisKonrad von Backstrom
Initial release20132006201820142015
Current release0.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlynonoNumeric data only
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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnononoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonofunctions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenonenoneyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenonenonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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