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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Sphinx vs. TimesTen vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	2.96
Rank	#103	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

sphinxsearch.com

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Softmotions

Oracle

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2011

2001

1998

1987

Current release

23.3, December 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

optional

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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