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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Heroic vs. OpenTSDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable 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 ElasticSearchScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicopentsdb.netwww.openpie.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdspotify.github.io/­heroicopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperSoftmotionsSpotifycurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOpenPieTimescale
Initial release2012201420112017
Current release2.1, January 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBaseyesyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
EJDBHeroicOpenTSDBPieCloudDBTimescaleDB
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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