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DBMS > Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore 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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial extension of H2A multi-model DBMS and application serverA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitefauna.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperFauna, Inc.CCRi and othersCNRSInterSystemsMicrosoft
Initial release20142014201319972012
Current release5.0.0, May 20242018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageScalaScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaC#
C++
Java
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infobased on H2yesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingdepending on storage layernonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layeryes infobased on H2Source-replica replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.nodepending on storage layeryesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infobased on H2Access rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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