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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RDFox

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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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.77
Rank	#157	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#74	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.16
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#319	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#17	RDF stores

Website

fauna.com

www.ibm.com/cloud/cloudant

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2014

2010

2017

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

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 in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Roles, resources, and access types

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