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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Solr vs. SQLite vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

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

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

solr.apache.org

www.sqlite.org

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

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

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Softmotions

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

2006

2000

2018

Current release

9.6.0, April 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

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

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

dynamic column types

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

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

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

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual 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

optimistic locking

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

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