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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Fauna vs. searchxml vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

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.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Fauna, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2008

2014

2015

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.0

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

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