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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. GBase vs. NCache vs. TiDB vs. YDB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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.An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#72  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#190  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.98
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score4.94
Rank#72  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#285  Overall
#43  Document stores
#130  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.gbase.cnwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachepingcap.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stableydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperFauna, Inc.AlachisoftPingCAP, Inc.Yandex
Initial release2014200520162019
Current releaseGBase 8a5.3, September 20227.6.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaGo, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnono
Triggersnoyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingyeshorizontal partitioning (by key range)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Active-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infofull support since version 6.6no
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDACID
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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Fauna infopreviously named FaunaDBGBaseNCacheTiDBYDB
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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