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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Newts vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TerminusDB

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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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

cloud.google.com/bigquery

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Softmotions

Google

OpenNMS Group

Oracle

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

2011

2018

Current release

23.3, December 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

optional

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

Java

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

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