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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. HarperDB vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. RethinkDB

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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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

fauna.com

www.harperdb.io

google.github.io/lovefield

machbase.com

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.harperdb.io/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

machbase.com/dbms

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

HarperDB

Google

Machbase

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

2013

2009

Current release

3.1, August 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

V8.0, August 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Node.js

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

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

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

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

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple password-based access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

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