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DBMS > Fauna vs. Firebolt vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Firebolt vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. TerarkDB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitefauna.comwww.firebolt.iogeospock.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.firebolt.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Firebolt Analytics Inc.GeoSpockGoogleByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2014202020142016
Current release2.0, September 20192.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaJava, JavascriptJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononono
TriggersnononoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingAutomatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, 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 controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenono

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