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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Prometheus vs. Riak KV vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

prometheus.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

prometheus.io/docs

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

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Softmotions

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

2015

2009

2008

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

server-less

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

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by Federation

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes, using Riak Security

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