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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. FoundationDB

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

Fauna (previously named FaunaDB) 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.

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

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Score	1.67
Rank	#135	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#12	Graph DBMS
	#66	Relational DBMS
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.foundationdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

apple.github.io/foundationdb

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

FoundationDB

Initial release

2014

2013

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

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

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in SQL-layer only

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

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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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Javascript apps Serverless backends for microservices Cloud-native apps B2B and B2C...
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Key customers

ShiftX
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Licensing and pricing models

Usage-based pricing including a free tier
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