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System Properties Comparison Databend vs. EJDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.kingbase.com.cn

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Databend Labs

Softmotions

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

2021

2012

2010

1999

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Erlang

C and Java

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

server-less

hosted

Linux
Windows

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

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Optimistic 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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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