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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue 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	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Spotify

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

2014

2014

1993

2012

Current release

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Go

Java

JavaScript

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

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

yes

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

no

no

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

JavaScript API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

no

View functions in JavaScript

yes

no

Triggers

no

no

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

yes

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

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

yes

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

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

no

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

no

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