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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Infobright vs. TimesTen vs. Trino

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

trino.io

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Softmotions

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2005

1998

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

PL/SQL

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

depending on connected data-source

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

yes

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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