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DBMS > Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. Sqrrl

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been 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.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandIn-memory JavaScript DBMSAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitefauna.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSsqrrl.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperFauna, Inc.CCRi and othersEmbarcaderoAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release20142014198420142012
Current release4.0.5, February 2024InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaScalaCJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptActionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingdepending on storage layernonenoneSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layerInterbase Change Viewsnoneselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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