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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.77
Rank	#149	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#70	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#379	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#271	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.datajaguar.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.datajaguar.com/support.php

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Google

Initial release

2014

2015

2014

Current release

2.9.4 September 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

rights management via user accounts

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