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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. HarperDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. Percona Server for MySQL

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  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.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
google.github.io/­lovefieldwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-server
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATEST
DeveloperFauna, Inc.HarperDBHEAVY.AI, Inc.GooglePercona
Initial release20142017201620142008
Current release3.1, August 20215.10, January 20222.1.12, February 20178.0.36-28, 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaNode.jsC++ and CUDAJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoJSON data typesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nonoyes
TriggersnononoUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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