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System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. Kdb vs. RocksDB vs. Tkrzw vs. Weaviate

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

kx.com

rocksdb.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Facebook, Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2018

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2013

2020

2019

Current release

0.8, December 2018

3.6, May 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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