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DBMS > Firebolt vs. Heroic vs. InfinityDB vs. LokiJS vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Heroic vs. InfinityDB vs. LokiJS vs. OpenQM

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceIn-memory JavaScript DBMSQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeMultivalue DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicboilerbay.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iospotify.github.io/­heroicboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.SpotifyBoiler Bay Inc.Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release20202014200220141993
Current release4.03.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysno
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaJavaScript.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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