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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Hazelcast vs. LMDB vs. Memcached vs. TimesTen

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comhazelcast.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.memcached.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docswww.lmdb.tech/­docgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperFauna, Inc.HazelcastSymasDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20142008201120031998
Current release5.3.6, November 20230.9.32, January 20241.6.25, March 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaCC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnonoPL/SQL
Triggersnoyes infoEventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoReplicated Mapnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlRole-based access controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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