DBMS > EsgynDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Fauna vs. Infobright vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Fauna vs. Infobright vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.mcobject.com

fauna.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.fauna.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Esgyn

McObject

Fauna, Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Initial release

2015

2001

2014

2005

2014

Current release

8.2, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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