DBMS > LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Qdrant vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Qdrant vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

manticoresearch.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

manual.manticoresearch.com

qdrant.tech/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Manticore Software

Qdrant

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2017

2021

2000

Current release

6.0, February 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Collection-level replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

Key-based authentication

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