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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Lovefield vs. SQLite vs. Tkrzw

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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 relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.sqlite.orgdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperSpotifyGoogleDwayne Richard HippMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20132014201420002020
Current release2.1.12, February 20173.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20240.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaScriptCC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safariserver-lessLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.no
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesGoJavaScriptActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDByesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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