DBMS > Datomic vs. Fauna vs. Memcached vs. OpenSearch vs. OpenTenBase

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Fauna vs. Memcached vs. OpenSearch vs. OpenTenBase

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

fauna.com

www.memcached.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.fauna.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

Developer

Cognitect

Fauna, Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Amazon Web Services

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Initial release

2012

2014

2003

2021

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

1.6.25, March 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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

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Typical application scenarios

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