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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. H2GIS vs. LeanXcale vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

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

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.h2gis.org

www.leanxcale.com

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

postgis.net

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

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

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Softmotions

CNRS

LeanXcale

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2013

2015

2011

2005

Current release

23.3, December 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
Java
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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