DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. Immudb vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Immudb vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.mcobject.com

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.immudb.io

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.stardog.com

Developer

McObject

Codenotary

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2001

2020

2012

2000

2010

Current release

8.2, 2021

1.2.3, April 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like syntax

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Access rights for users and roles

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Key customers

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