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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. HarperDB vs. Newts vs. XTDB

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Name

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.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.harperdb.io

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.harperdb.io/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Softmotions

HarperDB

OpenNMS Group

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

2019

Current release

3.1, August 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

JSON data types

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST
JDBC

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

Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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 rights for users and roles

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