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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Geode vs. RavenDB

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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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

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Spatial DBMS
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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

geode.apache.org

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Softmotions

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

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2012

2002

2010

Current release

1.1, February 2017

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

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

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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