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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. HyperSQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Stardog

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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 multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

fauna.com

hsqldb.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

rocksdb.org

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2014

2001

2011

2013

2010

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

23.3, December 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

BSD

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

yes

ACID

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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