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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Hypertable vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb vs. YottaDB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 HadoopDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitefauna.comrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4yottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comrethinkdb.com/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Hypertable Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017STS Soft SCYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20142009200920112001
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162.4.1, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++C++C#C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)no
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
.NET Client APIPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
Java
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsnoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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