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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Fauna

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Name

Description

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

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.

Primary database model

Event Store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.04
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#68	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

fauna.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.fauna.com

Developer

Event Store Limited

Fauna, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

Current release

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

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

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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