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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Newts vs. SpatiaLite vs. TimesTen

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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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of SQLite

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

opennms.github.io/newts

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

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

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Softmotions

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OpenNMS Group

Alessandro Furieri

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

2008

1998

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

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

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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