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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SiriDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

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Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

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

siridb.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.siridb.com

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Softmotions

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Cesbit

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Teradata

Initial release

2012

1984

2017

2012

2005

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less

HP Open VMS

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

Numeric data

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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