DBMS > Fauna vs. Memgraph vs. OpenSearch vs. SiteWhere vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Memgraph vs. OpenSearch vs. SiteWhere vs. Teradata

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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.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

memgraph.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

memgraph.com/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.teradata.com

Social network pages

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Amazon Web Services

SiteWhere

Teradata

Initial release

2014

2017

2021

2010

1984

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

predefined scheme

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

You can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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