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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. RDFox

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperSpotifyKineticaOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20132014201220142017
Current release7.1, August 20216.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC, C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationnonereplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
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 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.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoRoles, resources, and access types

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