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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Machbase Neo vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

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

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	2.69
Rank	#101	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

cloud.google.com/spanner

machbase.com

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

machbase.com/dbms

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Softmotions

Google

Machbase

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2012

2017

2013

1984

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

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

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

Users and groups

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