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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. EsgynDB vs. FatDB vs. PouchDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

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Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Website

dgraph.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.esgyn.cn

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

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

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Softmotions

Esgyn

FatCloud

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2012

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

via applications

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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