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DBMS > BoltDB vs. jBASE vs. KeyDB vs. LokiJS vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. jBASE vs. KeyDB vs. LokiJS vs. VelocityDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.keydb.devtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20131991201920142011
Current release5.77.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalpartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesnoyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoJavaScript API.Net
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
JavaScript.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesLuaView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersnoyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelsimple password-based access control and ACLnoBased on Windows Authentication

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