DBMS > Fauna vs. H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. SQLite vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. SQLite vs. STSdb

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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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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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	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.rockset.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

CNRS

Rockset

Dwayne Richard Hipp

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2013

2019

2000

2011

Current release

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C#
Java

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

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

based on H2

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

via file-system locks

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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