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DBMS > Fauna vs. NSDb vs. PlanetScale vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. NSDb vs. PlanetScale vs. Typesense

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  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.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#219  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitefauna.comnsdb.ioplanetscale.comtypesense.org
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comnsdb.io/­Architectureplanetscale.com/­docstypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperFauna, Inc.PlanetScale
Initial release2014201720202015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaJava, ScalaGoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Java
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
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 with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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