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DBMS > Fauna vs. GeoSpock vs. Greenplum vs. JaguarDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. GeoSpock vs. Greenplum vs. JaguarDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 scaleAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comgeospock.comgreenplum.orgwww.jaguardb.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.greenplum.orgwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperFauna, Inc.GeoSpockPivotal Software Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release2014200520152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2.0, September 20197.0.0, September 20233.3 July 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaJava, JavascriptC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesnouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingAutomatic shardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID infoMVCC
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.nonononono
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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