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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)

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#337	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Score	19.70
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Softmotions

Initial release

2015

2012

2005

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

Supported programming languages

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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