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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Widely used in-process key-value store

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.mysql.com

objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Softmotions

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

1995

2017

1994

2018

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

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 journaling

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 with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

Role-based access control

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