DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Cassandra vs. EJDB vs. Fauna vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Cassandra vs. EJDB vs. Fauna vs. JSqlDb

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

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

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

fauna.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

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

docs.fauna.com

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Softmotions

Fauna, Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2016

2008

2012

2014

2018

Current release

2.1, December 2018

4.1.3, July 2023

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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