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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Fauna vs. GridGain vs. SurrealDB vs. VoltDB

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfauna.comwww.gridgain.comsurrealdb.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.fauna.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperSoftmotionsFauna, Inc.GridGain Systems, Inc.SurrealDB LtdVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20122014200720222010
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1v1.1.1, January 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCScalaJava, C++, .NetRustJava, C++
Server operating systemsserver-lesshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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