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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. LeanXcale

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Softmotions

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

LeanXcale

Initial release

2012

2010

2015

Current release

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Optimistic 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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

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