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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.65
Rank	#38	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Softmotions

Amazon Web Services

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2013

2021

2009

1994

Current release

2.7.5, January 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

Numeric data and Strings

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

links between data sets can be stored

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

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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