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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB vs. mSQL vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.monetdb.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Softmotions

Spotify

MonetDB BV

Hughes Technologies

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

2014

2004

1994

2008

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

4.4, October 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

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

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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