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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. LokiJS vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. LokiJS vs. Memcached

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesIn-memory JavaScript DBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.33
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­leveldbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperSpotifyGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20132014201120142003
Current release1.23, February 20211.6.29, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonono
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 Elasticsearchnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnonenonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.no
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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