DBMS > Fauna vs. GridGain vs. MySQL vs. openGemini vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. GridGain vs. MySQL vs. openGemini vs. Oracle Rdb

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.55
Rank	#143	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#66	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.gridgain.com

www.mysql.com

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.opengemini.org/guide

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Huawei and openGemini community

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2014

2007

1995

2022

1984

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

9.0.0, July 2024

1.1, July 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial, open source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes, on a single node

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Administrators and common users accounts

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