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

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#15	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2013

2014

1993

2010

Current release

3.4-12

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

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

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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