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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Hypertable vs. ObjectBox vs. OrientDB vs. SQLite

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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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.objectbox.io

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2009

2017

2010

2000

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.2.29, March 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

Proprietary native API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, Javascript

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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