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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. HBase vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
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 enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbhbase.apache.orgwww.kingbase.com.cnazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdhbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperSoftmotionsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Microsoft
Initial release2012200819992012
Current release2.3.4, January 2021V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaC and Java
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
RESTful HTTP 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
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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