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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Graph Engine vs. Interbase vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Fauna 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.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.graphengine.io

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Microsoft

Embarcadero

8Kdata

Initial release

2014

2010

1984

2016

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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