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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Hive vs. Kdb vs. Newts vs. STSdb

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopHigh performance Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS based on CassandraKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbhive.apache.orgkx.comopennms.github.io/­newtsgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecode.kx.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperSoftmotionsApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOpenNMS GroupSTS Soft SC
Initial release201220122000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320142011
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.6, May 20184.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaqJavaC#
Server operating systemsserver-lessAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'nono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (q)nono
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP REST
Java API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
JavaC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accountsnono
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Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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