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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OrigoDB vs. Snowflake

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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.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial 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	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

fauna.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

origodb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

origodb.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Softmotions

Fauna, Inc.

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

2010

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

Current release

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

depending on model

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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 authorization

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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