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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Fauna vs. Hypertable vs. Memcached vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Fauna vs. Hypertable vs. Memcached vs. STSdb

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFauna 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.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeKey-value storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitedgraph.iofauna.comwww.memcached.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.fauna.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Fauna, Inc.Hypertable Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSTS Soft SC
Initial release20162014200920032011
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20161.6.27, May 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoScalaC++CC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnononoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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