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DBMS > EJDB vs. FoundationDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. FoundationDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdapple.github.io/­foundationdbcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperSoftmotionsFoundationDBIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20122013201020152013
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++ErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idno infosome layers support typingnoyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
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
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoJavaScript
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblein SQL-layer onlynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountssimple password-based access control

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