DBMS > BoltDB vs. EXASOL vs. Fauna vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EXASOL vs. Fauna vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.exasol.com

fauna.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.fauna.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Exasol

Fauna, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2000

2014

2013

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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