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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. OpenQM vs. SpaceTime

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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeMultivalue DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperSpotifyRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsMireo
Initial release20132014201419932020
Current release3.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScript.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyesFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes

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