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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Tibero

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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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Widely used open source RDBMS

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.mysql.com

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Percona

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2014

2010

1995

2008

2003

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

8.0.36-28, 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Erlang

C and C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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