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DBMS > Fauna vs. LeanXcale vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. LeanXcale vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFauna 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 capabilitiesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.leanxcale.compostgis.netwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.compostgis.net/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperFauna, Inc.LeanXcaleSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2014201520052013
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough Apache DerbyyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
Java
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsJavaScript
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple password-based access control

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