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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial extension of H2A relational database management system that stores data in columnsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitefauna.comwww.h2database.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.monetdb.orgrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Thomas MuellerCNRSMonetDB BVThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20142005201320042009
Current release2.2.220, July 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaJavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infobased on H2yes, in SQL, C, R
TriggersnoyesyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonenoneSharding via remote tablesSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infobased on H2none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCC based
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissions

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