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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Rockset vs. SQLite vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

rockset.com

www.sqlite.org

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.objectbox.io

docs.rockset.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Softmotions

ObjectBox Limited

Rockset

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2012

2017

2019

2000

2010

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

hosted

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

dynamic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

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 in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

relationships in graphs

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

via file-system locks

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles

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