DBMS > EJDB vs. Fauna vs. Interbase vs. OpenSearch vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Fauna vs. Interbase vs. OpenSearch vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Embeddable 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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

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

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

fauna.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

opensearch.org/docs/latest

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Softmotions

Fauna, Inc.

Embarcadero

Amazon Web Services

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2014

1984

2021

2003

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

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++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Interbase Change Views

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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