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Name

Description

Fauna 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 platform

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.55
Rank	#143	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#66	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

origodb.com/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Robert Friberg et al

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2012

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C and Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Go
Java
Python

.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined procedures and functions

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Role-based access control

Role based authorization

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