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System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. LokiJS vs. Qdrant vs. Sphinx

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NameImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeVector DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.immudb.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJSqdrant.tech/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCodenotaryQdrantSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2020201420212001
Current release1.2.3, April 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptRustC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like syntaxnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JavaScript APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoKey-based authenticationno

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