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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Hypertable vs. Rockset vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQLite

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.rockset.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Softmotions

Hypertable Inc.

Rockset

Sybase, SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2009

2019

1993

2000

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

dynamic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

via file-system locks

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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