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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Fauna vs. STSdb vs. SwayDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

fauna.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

swaydb.simer.au

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

docs.fauna.com

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Simer Plaha

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2018

2014

2011

2018

1999

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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