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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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.

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

A 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 model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	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	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.fauna.com

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Fauna, Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2012

2014

2022

2020

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

v1.5.0, May 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Scala

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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