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DBMS > Firebolt vs. GigaSpaces vs. LokiJS vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. GigaSpaces vs. LokiJS vs. VelocityDB

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.iowww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iodocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.Gigaspaces TechnologiesVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2020200020142011
Current release15.5, September 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnono
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JavaScript API.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScript.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes, event driven architectureyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnoBased on Windows Authentication

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