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DBMS > Fauna vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. RDFox vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. RDFox vs. TerarkDB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  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 scaleEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA 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 DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitefauna.comgeospock.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.oxfordsemantic.techbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperFauna, Inc.GeoSpockGoogleOxford Semantic TechnologiesByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2014201420172016
Current release2.0, September 20192.1.12, February 20176.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaJava, JavascriptJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-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.nononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaScriptC
Java
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingAutomatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonereplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDByesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoRoles, resources, and access typesno

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