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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Graphite vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBSpatial extension of SQLiteKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#72  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitefauna.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webrockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.rockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Chris DavisRocksetAlessandro FurieriSTS Soft SC
Initial release20142006201920082011
Current release5.0.0, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaPythonC++C++C#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
hostedserver-lessWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlydynamic typingyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononono
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneAutomatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenono

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