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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. LMDB vs. Splice Machine vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.10
Rank	#314	Overall
	#41	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#304	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	2.44
Rank	#117	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.80
Rank	#193	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	134.73
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

ejdb.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircomedge-iot-database

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

splicemachine.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

learn.faircomcorp.com/developers/documentation_directory

doc.splicemachine.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Softmotions

FairCom Corporation

Symas

Splice Machine

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

1979

2011

2014

2000

Current release

V3, October 2020

0.9.29, March 2021

3.1, March 2021

3.38.4 (4 May 2022), May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

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

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

when using SQL

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

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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