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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Hive vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PouchDB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopWidely used in-process key-value storeJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitefauna.comhive.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlpouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleApache Software Foundation
Initial release2014201219942012
Current release3.1.3, April 202218.1.40, May 20207.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnono
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 infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnono

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