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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Ingres vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Well established RDBMS

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

hsqldb.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

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

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Softmotions

Actian Corporation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2012

2001

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1991

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

11.2, May 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

optional

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

MVCC

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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