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DBMS > Fauna vs. HugeGraph vs. Kingbase vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. HugeGraph vs. Kingbase vs. Pinecone

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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 fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitefauna.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.kingbase.com.cnwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperFauna, Inc.BaiduBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2014201819992019
Current release0.9V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC and Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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