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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#271	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	1.09
Rank	#178	Overall
	#82	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.monetdb.org

www.openpie.com

planetscale.com

Technical documentation

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

planetscale.com/docs

Developer

Softmotions

MonetDB BV

OpenPie

PlanetScale

Initial release

2012

2004

2020

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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