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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. EJDB vs. Fauna vs. FileMaker vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. EJDB vs. Fauna vs. FileMaker vs. IRONdb

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLEmbeddable 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.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#320  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#331  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#143  Overall
#26  Document stores
#13  Graph DBMS
#66  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfauna.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.fauna.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.SoftmotionsFauna, Inc.Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleCirconus LLC.
Initial release20162012201419832017
Current release2.1, December 201819.4.1, November 2021V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCCScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lesshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
in-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
PHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsyesyes, in Lua
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14configurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno

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