DBMS > Fauna vs. GridGain vs. InfluxDB vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. GridGain vs. InfluxDB vs. SQLite

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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.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.gridgain.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2007

2013

2000

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.7.6, April 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

via file-system locks

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

simple rights management via user accounts

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