DBMS > Fauna vs. GridDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. GridDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

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.

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Widely used open source RDBMS

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

fauna.com

griddb.net

www.mysql.com

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.griddb.net

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Toshiba Corporation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Percona

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2014

2013

1995

2008

2018

Current release

5.1, August 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

8.0.36-28, 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at container level

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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