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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Geode vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SingleStore vs. Trino

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Name

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

geode.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.singlestore.com

trino.io

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.singlestore.com

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

Softmotions

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

Microsoft

SingleStore Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2002

1989

2013

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

1.1, February 2017

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

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#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

hash partitioning

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

SQL standard access control

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