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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Ingres vs. JanusGraph vs. Machbase Neo vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

janusgraph.org

machbase.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.janusgraph.org

machbase.com/dbms

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Softmotions

Actian Corporation

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Machbase

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

2013

2010

Current release

11.2, May 2022

0.6.3, February 2023

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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