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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. gStore vs. NuoDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

en.gstore.cn

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

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

doc.nuodb.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Softmotions

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2016

2013

2018

Current release

1.2, November 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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 journaling

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Role-based access control

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