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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Memgraph vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

memgraph.com

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

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

memgraph.com/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

Social network pages

Developer

Softmotions

Memgraph Ltd

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2017

2012

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

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

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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