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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenEdge vs. SiteWhere vs. WakandaDB

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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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Softmotions

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Progress Software Corporation

SiteWhere

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2010

1984

2010

2012

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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