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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. SQream DB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 cachingEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.memcached.orgrocksdb.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikigithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalFacebook, Inc.Tobias OetikerSQream Technologies
Initial release20142003201319992017
Current release1.6.27, May 20249.2.1, May 20241.8.0, 20222022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaCC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxHP-UX
Linux
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoNumeric data onlyyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolC++ API
Java API
in-process shared library
Pipes
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonehorizontal partitioningnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
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) protocolnono

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