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DBMS > Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDF4J vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDF4J vs. Yaacomo

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
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.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineRDF storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitefauna.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrdf4j.orgyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperFauna, Inc.MicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release2014201520042009
Current releaseV1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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