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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. LeanXcale vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	2.97
Rank	#92	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#286	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

Developer

Softmotions

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

LeanXcale

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2004

2015

2016

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

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

Atomic single-row operations

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

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

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