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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. EJDB vs. Galaxybase vs. JaguarDB vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

galaxybase.com

www.jaguardb.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

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

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Softmotions

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

DataJaguar, Inc.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2018

2012

2017

2015

2013

Current release

0.10, February 2024

Nov 20, November 2021

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Strong typed schema

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

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

Go
Java
Python

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

rights management via user accounts

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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