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DBMS > Fauna vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GraphDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GraphDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded 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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score3.32
Rank#91  Overall
#6  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitefauna.comgeospock.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.ontotext.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperFauna, Inc.GeoSpockGoogleOntotextByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2014201720002016
Current release2.0, September 201910.4, October 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaJava, JavascriptJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityno
Triggersnonoyes, with Cloud Functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingAutomatic shardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoConstraint checkingno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACIDno
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.no
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Fauna infopreviously named FaunaDBGeoSpockGoogle Cloud FirestoreGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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