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

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

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime 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 DBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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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
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicboilerbay.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmvitess.io
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperSpotifyBoiler Bay Inc.Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20142002201419932013
Current release4.03.4-1215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoyes
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 indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHQL (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 APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScript.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
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 possibleACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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