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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. RDFox

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  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.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitefauna.comwww.gbase.cncloud.google.com/­datastorewww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperFauna, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.GoogleOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2014200420082017
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c6.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaC, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, details hereyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (GQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsusing Google App Engine
TriggersnoyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replication using Paxosreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Roles, resources, and access types

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