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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. EJDB vs. Fauna vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphEmbeddable 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.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series 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
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitebangdb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfauna.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.fauna.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBSoftmotionsFauna, Inc.FoundationDBMicrosoft
Initial release20122012201420132016
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20216.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++CScalaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lesshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnono infosome layers support typingyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnonosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
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
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsin SQL-layer onlyTransact SQL
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneMulti-source replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesin SQL-layer onlyno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)noIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnoyes

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