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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Greenplum

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

galaxybase.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

greenplum.org

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.greenplum.org

Developer

Softmotions

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Google

Pivotal Software Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

2015

2005

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

7.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

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.

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python

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

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Role-based access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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