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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Tigris vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

spark.apache.org/sql

www.tigrisdata.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Softmotions

Apache Software Foundation

Tigris Data, Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2014

2022

1987

2019

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

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

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Python
R
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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