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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. KairosDB vs. LokiJS vs. OpenQM vs. SQLite

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory JavaScript DBMSQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroickairosdb.github.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperSpotifyRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20142013201419932000
Current release1.2.2, November 20183.4-123.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JavaScript APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranoneyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
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 controlsimple password-based access controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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