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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Fauna vs. HugeGraph vs. Memcached vs. RisingWave

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFauna 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 fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comfauna.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.memcached.orgwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.fauna.comhugegraph.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperCognitectFauna, Inc.BaiduDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRisingWave Labs
Initial release20122014201820032022
Current release1.0.6735, June 20230.91.6.25, March 20241.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureScalaJavaCRust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocolJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoUDFs in Python or Java
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers and Roles

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