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DBMS > EJDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Spanner

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Spanner

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgalaxybase.comcloud.google.com/­spanner
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdapple.github.io/­foundationdbcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docs
DeveloperSoftmotionsFoundationDBChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Google
Initial release2012201320172017
Current release6.2.28, November 2020Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageCC++C and Java
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idno infosome layers support typingyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Go
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyuser defined procedures and functionsno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblein SQL-layer onlyyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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