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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. KairosDB vs. LokiJS vs. OpenQM vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

kairosdb.github.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Spotify

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Percona

Initial release

2014

2013

2014

1993

2015

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

3.4-12

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

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 Elasticsearch

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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