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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

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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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

galaxybase.com

www.postgres-xl.org

quasar.ai

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Softmotions

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

quasardb

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

2010

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

10 R1, October 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

Linux
macOS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

integer and binary

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with 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

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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