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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. FileMaker vs. GBase vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gbase.cn

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

1983

2004

2012

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C, Java, Python

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

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

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

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

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