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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. RethinkDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitefauna.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmachbase.comrethinkdb.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmachbase.com/­dbmsrethinkdb.com/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFauna, Inc.GoogleMachbaseThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20142014201320092022
Current release2.1.12, February 2017V8.0, August 20232.4.1, August 2020v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaScriptCC++Rust
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersnoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databasenoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDByes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnosimple password-based access controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsyes, based on authentication and database rules

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