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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. NuoDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SpaceTime

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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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

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

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

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

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

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Softmotions

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2013

1994

2020

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

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

yes

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