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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Fauna vs. Heroic vs. Machbase Neo

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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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#72	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

fauna.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

machbase.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Softmotions

Fauna, Inc.

Spotify

Machbase

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

simple password-based access control

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