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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. HBase vs. Raima Database Manager vs. XTDB

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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.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

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

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

fauna.com

hbase.apache.org

raima.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.raima.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Raima Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2008

1984

2019

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

15, June 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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8 October 2020

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1 October 2020

Raima Expands Their Reseller Network in Asia
19 May 2020

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