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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.mcobject.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Softmotions

McObject

Google

Initial release

2012

2001

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

8.2, 2021

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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 for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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