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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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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
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.sqlite.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFauna, Inc.CCRi and othersDwayne Richard HippTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2014201420001987
Current release4.0.5, February 20243.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoPublic Domaincommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaScalaCC and C++
Server operating systemshostedserver-lessFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingdepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layernoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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