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DBMS > Fauna vs. Memgraph vs. Riak KV vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Memgraph vs. Riak KV vs. VelocityDB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitefauna.commemgraph.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.commemgraph.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Memgraph LtdOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2014201720092011
Current release3.2.0, December 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaC and C++ErlangC#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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 indexesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsErlangno
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
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 controlUsers, roles and permissionsyes, using Riak SecurityBased on Windows Authentication
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Fauna infopreviously named FaunaDBMemgraphRiak KVVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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