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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. HarperDB

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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.

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.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.77
Rank	#157	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#74	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#283	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

fauna.com

harperdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

harperdb.io/developers/documentation/overview

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

HarperDB

Initial release

2014

2017

Current release

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Node.js

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using 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 rights for users and roles

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