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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. GBase vs. InfluxDB vs. MaxDB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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

Score	0.10
Rank	#322	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.21
Rank	#161	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	29.78
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#92	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	4.55
Rank	#83	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

ejdb.org

www.gbase8a.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

maxdb.sap.com

www.sap.com/products/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/iq

Developer

Softmotions

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2013

1984

1994

Current release

GBase 8a

2.3, June 2022

7.9.10 (January 2020), 2020

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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