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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Ignite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Sadas Engine vs. TimesTen

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore 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.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A multi-model DBMS and application serverSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comignite.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.sadasengine.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.comwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Apache Software FoundationInterSystemsSADAS s.r.l.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20142015199720061998
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.62018.1.4, May 20208.011 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++, Java, .NetC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesnoPL/SQL
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingnonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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