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DBMS > Fauna vs. FoundationDB vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenMLDB

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. FoundationDB vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenMLDB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
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.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#143  Overall
#26  Document stores
#13  Graph DBMS
#66  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitefauna.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewopenmldb.ai
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­main
DeveloperFauna, Inc.FoundationDB4 Paradigm Inc.
Initial release2014201320132020
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.7.6, April 20242024-2 February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaC++GoC++, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infosome layers support typingNumeric data and Stringsyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsin SQL-layer onlynono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnosimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Fauna infopreviously named FaunaDBFoundationDBInfluxDBOpenMLDB
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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