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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Interbase vs. SAP HANA vs. Tkrzw

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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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.55
Rank	#143	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#66	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

fauna.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Embarcadero

SAP

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2014

1984

2010

2020

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Interbase Change Views

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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