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DBMS > Fauna vs. Galaxybase vs. Hypertable vs. STSdb vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Galaxybase vs. Hypertable vs. STSdb vs. Teradata Aster

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be 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.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSWide column storeKey-value 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
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitefauna.comgalaxybase.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.com
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Hypertable Inc.STS Soft SCTeradata
Initial release20142017200920112005
Current releaseNov 20, November 20210.9.8.11, March 20164.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaC and JavaC++C#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
C++ API
Thrift
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Go
Java
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined procedures and functionsnonoR packages
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlRole-based access controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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