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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. GBase vs. MariaDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Spark SQL

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Name

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.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.gbase.cn

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

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

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Softmotions

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

SiteWhere

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2004

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2010

2014

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

11.3.2, February 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

predefined scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

based on HBase

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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