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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Apache Pinot vs. EJDB vs. Fauna vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

pinot.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

fauna.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

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

docs.fauna.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Softmotions

Fauna, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2012

2014

2013

Current release

2.1, December 2018

1.0.0, September 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

server-less

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
Python

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

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

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

yes

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

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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