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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. JanusGraph vs. SpatiaLite 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.

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

fauna.com

janusgraph.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

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

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.janusgraph.org

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Alessandro Furieri

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2017

2008

2020

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

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

yes

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

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
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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