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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. HBase vs. Newts vs. Sequoiadb

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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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

hbase.apache.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Softmotions

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

OpenNMS Group

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2008

2014

2013

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP REST
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

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

Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

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