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DBMS > Fauna vs. IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE vs. TerminusDB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Trend Chart
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9terminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperFauna, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2014201019912018
Current release5.711.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaErlangProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonooptionalyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole-based access control

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