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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Softmotions

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2012

2010

2013

2003

Current release

2.7.5, January 2024

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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