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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Galaxybase vs. GBase vs. H2 vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

Fauna 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.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Thomas Mueller

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

2004

2005

2013

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C and Java

C, Java, Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Go
Java
Python

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

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.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Role-based access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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