DBMS > Fauna vs. H2GIS vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. H2GIS vs. RocksDB

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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 persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.80
Rank	#165	Overall
	#27	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#78	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#358	Overall
	#5	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.27
Rank	#92	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores

Website

fauna.com

www.h2gis.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

CNRS

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2013

Current release

7.10.2, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

based on H2

yes

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

yes

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

yes

based on H2

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