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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Redis vs. SQL.JS

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRedis  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Widely used open source RDBMSPopular in-memory data platform used as a cache, message broker, and database that can be deployed on-premises, across clouds, and hybrid environments infoRedis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMSKey-value store infoMultiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistenceRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store infowith RedisJSON
Graph DBMS infowith RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infowith RediSearch
Time Series DBMS infowith RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score157.80
Rank#6  Overall
#1  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.mysql.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlredis.com
redis.io
sql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddev.mysql.com/­docwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.redis.com/­latest/­index.html
redis.io/­docs
sql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperSoftmotionsOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo infoDevelopment sponsored by Redis Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20121995198420092012
Current release8.4.0, April 20247.4.1.1, 20217.2.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercialOpen Source infosource-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis EnterpriseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++CJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-lessFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMSBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows infoported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infowith RediSearch module
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyeswith RediSQL moduleyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxLua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)no
Triggersnoyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGearsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricSharding infoAutomatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infowith Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication infoChained replication is supported
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononothrough RedisGearsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes, on a single nodeAtomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAccess Control Lists (ACLs): redis.io/­docs/­management/­security/­acl
LDAP and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Redis Enterprise
Mutual TLS authentication: redis.io/­docs/­management/­security/­encryption
Password-based authentication
no

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