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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. HBase vs. Linter vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

RDBMS for high security requirements

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

hbase.apache.org

linter.ru

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Softmotions

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

relex.ru

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2008

1990

2001

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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