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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. LokiJS vs. OpenQM vs. Oracle Coherence

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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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

fauna.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Oracle

Initial release

2014

1993

2007

Current release

3.4-12

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

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

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

optionally

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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