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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  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.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Spatial extension of H2
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#161  Overall
#26  Document stores
#13  Graph DBMS
#78  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score18.58
Rank#38  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.31
Rank#344  Overall
#5  Spatial DBMS
Websitefauna.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2gis.org
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014CNRS
Initial release201420122013
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
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Implementation languageScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infobased on H2
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infobased on H2

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