DBMS > EJDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MySQL vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.mysql.com

ravendb.net

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

dev.mysql.com/doc

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Softmotions

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Hibernating Rhinos

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2016

1995

2010

2020

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

5.4, July 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (RQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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