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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

postgis.net

ravendb.net

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

ravendb.net/docs

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Softmotions

Hibernating Rhinos

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2005

2010

2019

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

hosted

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

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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