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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Kingbase vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.eventstore.com

galaxybase.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

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

Technical documentation

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

developers.eventstore.com

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Softmotions

Event Store Limited

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

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

1999

2013

Current release

21.2, February 2021

Nov 20, November 2021

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

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

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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