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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Hypertable vs. Memcached vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

fauna.com

www.memcached.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SAP

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2009

2003

2010

2011

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

1.6.27, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

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