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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. LeanXcale vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS

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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 highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

LeanXcale

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2015

2005

2012

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Scala

C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

yes

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.

no

yes

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions

no

Triggers

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

yes

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

yes

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

no

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