DBMS > EJDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Fauna vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Fauna vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

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

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.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

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

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.esgyn.cn

fauna.com

rocksdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Softmotions

Esgyn

Fauna, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2015

2014

2013

2016

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

hosted

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

yes

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

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