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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

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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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

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

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

fauna.com

hsqldb.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

rocksdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

2001

2012

2013

2016

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

optimistic locking

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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