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DBMS > Datomic vs. Fauna vs. RisingWave vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Fauna vs. RisingWave vs. SWC-DB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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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
Score0.61
Rank#237  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.datomic.comfauna.comwww.risingwave.com/­databasegithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.fauna.comdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperCognitectFauna, Inc.RisingWave LabsAlex Kashirin
Initial release2012201420222020
Current release1.0.7180, July 20241.2, September 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureScalaRustC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoStandard 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
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsUDFs in Python or Javano
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
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 controlUsers and Roles

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