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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. EJDB vs. Prometheus vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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)

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

prometheus.io

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

prometheus.io/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Softmotions

Sybase, SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2015

1993

2013

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

Numeric data only

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C++

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

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by Federation

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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