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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Lovefield vs. Speedb

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFauna 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.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitefauna.comwww.claris.com/­filemakercloud.google.com/­datastoregoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.speedb.io
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleGoogleSpeedb
Initial release20141983200820142020
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, details hereyesno
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
PHP.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesusing Google App Enginenono
TriggersnoyesCallbacks using the Google Apps EngineUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication using Paxosnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono
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Fauna infopreviously named FaunaDBFileMakerGoogle Cloud DatastoreLovefieldSpeedb
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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