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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. EJDB vs. gStore vs. SQream DB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

en.gstore.cn

sqream.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.datastax.com

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

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.sqream.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

DataStax

Softmotions

SQream Technologies

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2011

2012

2016

2017

1998

Current release

6.8, April 2020

1.2, November 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

server-less

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

in-process shared library

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions in Python

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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