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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. JSqlDb vs. Riak TS vs. ScyllaDB vs. SiriDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

fauna.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.scylladb.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.scylladb.com

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

ScyllaDB

Cesbit

Initial release

2014

2018

2015

2017

Current release

0.8, December 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

restricted

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

functions in JavaScript

Erlang

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing models

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