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DBMS > Fauna vs. Google BigQuery vs. Memcached vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Google BigQuery vs. Memcached vs. RDFox

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  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.Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score58.10
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitefauna.comcloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.memcached.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperFauna, Inc.GoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2014201020032017
Current release1.6.27, May 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaCC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
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 integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes
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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolRoles, resources, and access types

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