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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Fauna vs. Linter vs. RocksDB vs. StarRocks

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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.

RDBMS for high security requirements

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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Softmotions

Fauna, Inc.

relex.ru

Facebook, Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2012

2014

1990

2013

2020

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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