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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. HBase vs. Hypertable vs. PouchDB vs. Transbase

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbhbase.apache.orgpouchdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperSoftmotionsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHypertable Inc.Apache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122008200920121987
Current release2.3.4, January 20210.9.8.11, March 20167.1.1, June 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Sourcecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++JavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idoptions to bring your own types, AVROnonoyes
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 indexesnonorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavanoView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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