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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. NuoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

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

doc.nuodb.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Softmotions

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

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

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

MVCC

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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