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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. EJDB vs. Fauna vs. NebulaGraph vs. TerarkDB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonEmbeddable 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 distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSA 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 modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroragithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfauna.comgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.fauna.comdocs.nebula-graph.iobytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAmazonSoftmotionsFauna, Inc.Vesoft Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20152012201420192016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageCScalaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedserver-lesshostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.no
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocolnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlRole-based access controlno
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon AuroraEJDBFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBNebulaGraphTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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