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DBMS > BigObject vs. EJDB vs. HarperDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EJDB vs. HarperDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score0.57
Rank#240  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#247  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.harperdb.iosql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.harperdb.io/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.SoftmotionsHarperDBAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2015201220172012
Current release3.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCNode.jsJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
server-lessLinux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freedynamic schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes infoJSON data typesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
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 infoStored proceduresLuanoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1no
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDBno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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