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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. OrientDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

orientdb.org

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Softmotions

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Yandex

Initial release

2012

1983

2010

2023

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language, no joins

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

relationship in graphs

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Access Control Lists

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