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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Hazelcast vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SiteWhere

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 gridEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Vector DBMS
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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
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitefauna.comhazelcast.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperFauna, Inc.HazelcastGoogleMicrosoftSiteWhere
Initial release20142008201420152010
Current release5.3.6, November 20232.1.12, February 2017V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafarihostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 strategynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnono
Triggersnoyes infoEventsUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoReplicated Mapnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infousing MemoryDBnono
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlRole-based access controlnoyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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