DBMS > Fauna vs. H2GIS vs. LevelDB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. H2GIS vs. LevelDB vs. Riak TS

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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.

Spatial extension of H2

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.h2gis.org

github.com/google/leveldb

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

CNRS

Google

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

2013

2011

2015

Current release

1.23, February 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Java

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

based on H2

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

with automatic compression on writes

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

yes

based on H2

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