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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 H2Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSSearch engineDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Trend Chart
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
Score5.71
Rank#64  Overall
#8  Search engines
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitefauna.comwww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrockset.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperFauna, Inc.CNRSMicrosoftRocksetSTS Soft SC
Initial release20142013201520192011
Current releaseV14.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC++C#
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesdynamic typingyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infobased on H2nonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on H2yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infobased on H2yes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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