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DBMS > Fauna vs. GBase vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. GBase vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines 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.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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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
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitefauna.comwww.gbase.cnpostgis.netrocksdb.orgyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.compostgis.net/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperFauna, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Facebook, Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20142004200520132009
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.4.2, February 20248.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaC, Java, PythonCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 extensionsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesSource-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
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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