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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

hazelcast.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Softmotions

Hazelcast

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2008

2009

2011

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

none

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 selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

Role-based access control

yes, using Riak Security

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