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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Spotify

DataJaguar, Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

2014

2015

2014

2012

Current release

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Go

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

yes

yes

no

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

no

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

no

no

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

no

no

View functions in JavaScript

no

Triggers

no

no

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

yes

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

no

no

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

no

no

no

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

no

no

no

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

rights management via user accounts

no

no

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