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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. GBase vs. MariaDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  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.MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score93.21
Rank#13  Overall
#9  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#205  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.gbase.cnmariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
opentsdb.netwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.commariadb.com/­kb/­en/­libraryopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperFauna, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTencent
Initial release201420042009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 199520112013
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c11.3.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availableOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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STACKIT MariaDB offers MariaDB in a fully managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant.
Implementation languageScalaC, Java, PythonC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic columns are supportedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3noyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningseveral options for horizontal partitioning and ShardingSharding infobased on HBaseAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infonot for in-memory storage engineyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infowith MEMORY storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Fauna infopreviously named FaunaDBGBaseMariaDBOpenTSDBTDSQL for MySQL
Specific characteristicsMariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Competitive advantagesMariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Typical application scenariosWeb, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Key customersDeutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsMariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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