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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Geode vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SingleStore vs. XTDB

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable 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 processesWidely used in-process key-value storeMySQL 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 typeA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgeode.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.singlestore.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.singlestore.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSoftmotionsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSingleStore Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20122002199420132019
Current release1.1, February 201718.1.40, May 20208.5, January 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++, GoClojure
Server operating systemsserver-lessAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyes infobut no triggers and foreign keyslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoonly for the SQL APInono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infohash partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definablenoFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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