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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LokiJS vs. Newts vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Softmotions

IBM

OpenNMS Group

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2014

2011

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
Java API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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