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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicjsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperSpotifyKonrad von Backstrom
Initial release20132014201820142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release0.8, December 201810 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonoyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScriptJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonofunctions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnonenone
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infoMVCC
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 controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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