DBMS > EJDB vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP IQ vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP IQ vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

opennms.github.io/newts

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Softmotions

OpenNMS Group

SAP, formerly Sybase

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1994

2011

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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