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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Hive vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Hive vs. LokiJS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.69
Rank#237  Overall
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.63
Rank#242  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score64.82
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#259  Overall
#41  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichive.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Hometechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperSpotifyApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release2013201420122014
Current release3.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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