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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Kdb vs. Sequoiadb

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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

High performance Time Series DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

galaxybase.com

kx.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

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

code.kx.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Softmotions

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

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2017

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2013

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

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

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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