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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Fauna vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP HANA vs. TimesTen

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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.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
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	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

fauna.com

manticoresearch.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

help.sap.com/hana

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Softmotions

Fauna, Inc.

Manticore Software

SAP

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2014

2017

2010

1998

Current release

6.0, February 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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