DBMS > Fauna vs. MySQL vs. OrigoDB vs. TiDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. MySQL vs. OrigoDB vs. TiDB vs. YottaDB

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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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

origodb.com/docs

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Robert Friberg et al

PingCAP, Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

1995

2009

under the name LiveDB

2016

2001

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

8.0.0, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

depending on model

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role based authorization

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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