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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Fauna vs. Heroic vs. SpatiaLite vs. Tkrzw

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFauna 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 ElasticSearchSpatial extension of SQLiteA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitealtibase.comfauna.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.fauna.comspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAltibaseFauna, Inc.SpotifyAlessandro FurieriMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release19992014201420082020
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0.0, August 20200.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedserver-lessLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnono

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