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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. GridDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgriddb.netwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.griddb.netcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperSoftmotionsToshiba CorporationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014quasardb
Initial release2012201320102009
Current release5.1, August 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageCC++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinuxhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampnoyes infointeger and binary
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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EJDBGridDBIBM CloudantQuasardb
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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