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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. EsgynDB vs. HBase vs. Ignite

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.esgyn.cn

hbase.apache.org

ignite.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Developer

Softmotions

Esgyn

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2015

2008

2015

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or 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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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