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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Lovefield vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

google.github.io/lovefield

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

doc.nuodb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Softmotions

Google

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

2011

2014

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

optional

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

Temporary table

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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