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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Heroic vs. OpenTSDB vs. VelocityDB

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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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/spotify/heroic

opentsdb.net

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Softmotions

Spotify

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2014

2011

Current release

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

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

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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