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DBMS > Fauna vs. H2GIS vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. H2GIS vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TinkerGraph

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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.Spatial extension of H2In-memory JavaScript DBMSA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument storeWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#72  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.92
Rank#73  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablestinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­hometechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperFauna, Inc.CNRSMicrosoft
Initial release20142013201420122009
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaJavaScript.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infobased on H2View functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on H2noneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infobased on H2noAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesno

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