DBMS > Fauna vs. H2 vs. openGauss

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. H2 vs. openGauss

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#65	Relational DBMS
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.26
Rank	#45	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.h2database.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2014

2005

2019

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Scala

Java

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Java

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

Great Lakes Water Life database features native flora and fauna across the basin
6 May 2025, Michigan State University

FaunaDB shuts down but hints at open source future
24 March 2025, theregister.com

Fauna Adds Declarative Tool to Update Namesake Database
1 July 2024, DevOps.com

Fauna to shut down FaunaDB service in May
25 March 2025, InfoWorld

Utah Natural Heritage Program
8 November 2024, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (.gov)

provided by Google News

openGauss Open Source Community Officially Launch
1 July 2020, Huawei

Engineering Students from Thammasat Win 2 'Huawei ICT' Awards to Represent Thailand in Asia-Pacific Competition.
12 January 2024, มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์

Figure 6: Full TPC-C performance with scale factor of 500 warehouses...
14 January 2021, ResearchGate

Huawei launches six new products to bolster growth in cloud sector
25 April 2021, Global Times

Diversified Computing: Open Innovation for Shared Success
30 September 2020, Huawei

provided by Google News

Share this page