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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Riak KV vs. Solr vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

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

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

solr.apache.org

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

Technical documentation

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

solr.apache.org/resources.html

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

Developer

Softmotions

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2009

2006

1987

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

9.6.0, April 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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