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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EJDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Softmotions

Elastic

Initial release

2015

2012

2010

2005

Current release

8.6, January 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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