DBMS > Fauna vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. SingleStore vs. SQream DB

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

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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 key-value store, originally intended for caching

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.singlestore.com

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Facebook, Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2014

2003

2013

2017

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

8.5, January 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C++, Go

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
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

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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