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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. LokiJS vs. ObjectBox vs. OceanBase vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

objectbox.io

en.oceanbase.com

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

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.objectbox.io

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2013

2014

2017

2010

1993

Current release

4.3.0, April 2024

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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