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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB

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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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

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Score	0.55
Rank	#231	Overall
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#280	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#226	Overall
	#34	Document stores

Score	3.83
Rank	#89	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

spotify.github.io/heroic/#!/index

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic/#!/docs/overview

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Spotify

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2013

2014

1984

Current release

7.9.10 (January 2020), 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

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

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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