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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Geode vs. Hypertable vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

geode.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Softmotions

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2002

2009

2013

1980

Current release

1.1, February 2017

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.7.5, January 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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