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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. OpenTSDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB 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 ElasticSearchJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesIn-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
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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Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicjsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSopentsdb.net
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperSpotifyKonrad von Backstromcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20132014201820142011
Current release0.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnononumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScriptJavaScriptErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonofunctions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
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 datayesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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