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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSrethinkdb.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsSpotifyThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SiteWhere
Initial release20172014201420092010
Current release2022, May 20222.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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 Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesnononono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaScriptC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnonoyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding inforange basedSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes 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.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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