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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. OpenTSDB vs. Solr vs. TimescaleDB

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.gigaspaces.comopentsdb.netsolr.apache.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperSoftmotionsGigaspaces Technologiescurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsApache Software FoundationTimescale
Initial release20122000201120062017
Current release15.5, September 20209.6.1, May 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
Telnet API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoJava pluginsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyes, event driven architecturenoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBaseShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnooptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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