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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Qdrant vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

hsqldb.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

yanza.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Softmotions

Qdrant

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2012

2001

2021

2015

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

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

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

in-process shared library

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Collection-level replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

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