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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. HarperDB vs. Lovefield vs. SAP IQ vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.55
Rank	#252	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.harperdb.io

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.harperdb.io/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Softmotions

HarperDB

Google

SAP, formerly Sybase

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

1994

2009

Current release

3.1, August 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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