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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. HarperDB vs. JanusGraph vs. TerminusDB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.harperdb.iojanusgraph.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.janusgraph.orgterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperFauna, Inc.HarperDBLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2014201720172018
Current release3.1, August 20210.6.3, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaNode.jsJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoJSON data typesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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
Clojure
Java
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yesyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
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 clusteryes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Graph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users and rolesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerRole-based access control

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