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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. JaguarDB vs. JanusGraph vs. SWC-DB

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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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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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	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

fauna.com

www.jaguardb.com

janusgraph.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2015

2017

2020

Current release

3.3 July 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

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

Clojure
Java
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

rights management via user accounts

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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