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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Infobright vs. Kingbase vs. SQream DB vs. SwayDB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitefauna.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.kingbase.com.cnsqream.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.SQream TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release20142005199920172018
Current releaseV8.0, August 20212022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaCC and JavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno
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 indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard with numerous extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsuser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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