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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#6	Overall
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Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Softmotions

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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