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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Fauna vs. Kuzu

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Fauna vs. Kuzu

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonKuzu  Xexclude from comparison
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 embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.20
Rank#164  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#142  Overall
#25  Document stores
#13  Graph DBMS
#65  Relational DBMS
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#367  Overall
#38  Graph DBMS
Websitedgraph.iofauna.comkuzudb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.fauna.comdocs.kuzudb.com
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Fauna, Inc.
Initial release201620142022
Current release0.4.2, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageGoScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
Cypher Query Language
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
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 dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlno

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