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DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. Fauna vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. Fauna vs. Sequoiadb

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLFauna 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.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitecachelot.iowww.citusdata.comfauna.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.fauna.comwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2015201020142013
Current release8.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++CScalaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsJavaScript
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardIdentity management, authentication, and access controlsimple password-based access control

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