DB-EnginesextremeDB - Data management wherever you need itEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > Fauna vs. Memcached vs. PlanetScale vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Memcached vs. PlanetScale vs. Transwarp Hippo

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  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.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#143  Overall
#26  Document stores
#13  Graph DBMS
#66  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#16  Vector DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.memcached.orgplanetscale.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalPlanetScale
Initial release2014200320202023
Current release1.6.29, June 20241.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageScalaCGoC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesVector, Numeric and String
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesRole based access control and fine grained access rights

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Fauna infopreviously named FaunaDBMemcachedPlanetScaleTranswarp Hippo
DB-Engines blog posts

Redis extends the lead in the DB-Engines key-value store ranking
3 February 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

New DB-Engines Ranking shows the popularity of database management systems
3 October 2012, Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Fauna Adds Declarative Tool to Update Namesake Database
1 July 2024, DevOps.com

Fauna Launches Distributed Document-Relational Database On Google Cloud Marketplace
21 March 2024, GlobeNewswire

Utah Natural Heritage Program
12 June 2024, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources

Slicing the Gordian Knot: A leap to real-time systems of truth
3 February 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Data Management News for the Week of June 21; Updates from Actian, Astronomer, Reltio & More
21 June 2024, Solutions Review

provided by Google News

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X & Ryzen 7 9700X Offer Excellent Linux Performance
7 August 2024, Phoronix

Why DDoS Threat Actors Are Shifting Their Tactics
15 March 2024, Infosecurity Magazine

Why Redis beats Memcached for caching
14 September 2017, InfoWorld

What are memcached servers, and why are they being used to launch record-setting DDoS attacks?
6 March 2018, GeekWire

Memcached Cloud available in the Azure Store
18 April 2014, Microsoft

provided by Google News

PlanetScale ends free tier bid, sheds staff in profitability bid
11 March 2024, The Register

PlanetScale Insights Anomalies introduces smart query monitoring
29 November 2023, SDTimes.com

PlanetScale forks MySQL to add vector support
3 October 2023, TechCrunch

Top Database as a Service (DBaaS) Startups
28 August 2024, Tracxn

PlanetScale review: Horizontally scalable MySQL in the cloud
1 September 2021, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

10 top vector database options for similarity searches
8 August 2024, TechTarget

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here