DBMS > EJDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Interbase vs. MySQL vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Interbase vs. MySQL vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used open source RDBMS

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.mysql.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

dev.mysql.com/doc

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Softmotions

Google

Embarcadero

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2008

1984

1995

2023

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes, details here

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access Control Lists

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