DBMS > BoltDB vs. Fauna vs. OrientDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Fauna vs. OrientDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

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

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

fauna.com

orientdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SAP

Mireo

Initial release

2013

2014

2010

2020

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, Javascript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

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