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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak TS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Softmotions

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2015

1992

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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