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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenSearch vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

siridb.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Softmotions

Google

Amazon Web Services

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2014

2021

2017

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Aiven for OpenSearch: Fully managed open source search and analytics suite. Out-of-the-box integrations get you up and running in a couple of clicks.

Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

Numeric data

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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