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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Galaxybase vs. HarperDB vs. HyperSQL

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  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.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comgalaxybase.comwww.harperdb.iohsqldb.org
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.harperdb.io/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司HarperDB
Initial release2014201720172001
Current releaseNov 20, November 20213.1, August 20212.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaC and JavaNode.jsJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemadynamic schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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 SQLnonoSQL-like data manipulation statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined procedures and functionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1Java, SQL
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednone
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 integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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