DBMS > Fauna vs. Infobright vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Infobright vs. PouchDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

fauna.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2005

2012

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript
1 December 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Slicing the Gordian Knot: A leap to real-time systems of truth
3 February 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Fauna Launches Distributed Document-Relational Database On Google Cloud Marketplace
21 March 2024, GlobeNewswire

Fauna Adds Transformative Schema-as-Code Capabilities to Enterprise Proven, Document-Relational Database
15 November 2023, Business Wire

Fauna Query Language tamed to appeal to developers
22 August 2023, The Register

Utah Natural Heritage Program
17 October 2023, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources

provided by Google News

Building an Offline First App with PouchDB — SitePoint
10 March 2014, SitePoint

Getting Started with PouchDB Client-Side JavaScript Database — SitePoint
7 September 2016, SitePoint

3 Reasons To Think Offline First
22 March 2017, IBM

Offline-first web and mobile apps: Top frameworks and components
22 January 2019, TechBeacon

Create Offline Web Apps Using Service Workers & PouchDB — SitePoint
7 March 2017, SitePoint

provided by Google News

Share this page