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

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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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.kinetica.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.kinetica.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Spotify

Kinetica

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

2014

2012

2014

1998

Current release

7.1, August 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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