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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Rockset vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

rockset.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.rockset.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Softmotions

Microsoft

Rockset

Mireo

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2015

2019

2020

1987

Current release

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
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

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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