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DBMS > Fauna vs. Hypertable vs. JanusGraph vs. Memcached vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Hypertable vs. JanusGraph vs. Memcached vs. STSdb

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeGraph DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#143  Overall
#26  Document stores
#13  Graph DBMS
#66  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#134  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Websitefauna.comjanusgraph.orgwww.memcached.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.janusgraph.orggithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Hypertable Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSTS Soft SC
Initial release20142009201720032011
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20161.0.0, October 20231.6.29, June 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++JavaCC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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