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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. OpenQM

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeMultivalue DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperSpotifyCirconus LLC.Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release20132014201720141993
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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