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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Hive vs. SpaceTime vs. TimesTen vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

hive.apache.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Softmotions

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Mireo

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2020

1998

2019

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

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

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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