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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. EJDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. MongoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	410.24
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.gigaspaces.com

www.mongodb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Softmotions

Gigaspaces Technologies

MongoDB, Inc

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2000

2009

1992

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

15.5, September 2020

7.0.5, January 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

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

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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