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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. EJDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hypertable vs. SQLite

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.gigaspaces.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Softmotions

Gigaspaces Technologies

Hypertable Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2018

2012

2000

2009

2000

Current release

15.5, September 2020

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

in-process shared library

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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 Locking

yes

via file-system locks

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Role-based access control

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