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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)

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.harperdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

docs.harperdb.io/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Softmotions

HarperDB

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2015

2012

2017

2012

Current release

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C

Node.js

JavaScript

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

Linux
OS X

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

JSON data types

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.

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

no

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

no

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

no

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

no

Triggers

no

no

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

no

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

no

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

yes

yes, using LMDB

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

no

Access rights for users and roles

no

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