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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

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

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Softmotions

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Oracle

Splice Machine

Initial release

2012

2014

2016

2011

2014

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

23.3, December 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

optional

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
PHP

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

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

yes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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