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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Lovefield vs. Qdrant vs. TerarkDB vs. TimesTen

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

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

qdrant.tech/documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Softmotions

Google

Qdrant

ByteDance, originally Terark

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2014

2021

2016

1998

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

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

C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

Using read-only observers

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Key-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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