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DBMS > Datomic vs. Fauna vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Fauna vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQream DB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 multi-model DBMS and application serverNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#143  Overall
#26  Document stores
#13  Graph DBMS
#66  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comfauna.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.sequoiadb.comsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.fauna.comdocs.intersystems.comwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperCognitectFauna, Inc.InterSystemsSequoiadb Ltd.SQream Technologies
Initial release20122014199720132017
Current release1.0.7180, July 20242018.1.4, May 20202022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureScalaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSON.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsyesJavaScriptuser defined functions in Python
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
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 developmentnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access control

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