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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. MonetDB vs. Stardog

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable 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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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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
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfauna.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.fauna.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperSoftmotionsFauna, Inc.CCRi and othersMonetDB BVStardog-Union
Initial release20122014201420042010
Current release5.0.0, May 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 20237.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCScalaScalaCJava
Server operating systemsserver-lesshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnononoyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingdepending on storage layerSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layernone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnoyesyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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