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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EJDB vs. Fauna vs. PieCloudDB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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.

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	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	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

fauna.com

www.openpie.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

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

docs.fauna.com

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Altibase

Softmotions

Fauna, Inc.

OpenPie

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1999

2012

2014

2016

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

server-less

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

none

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

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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