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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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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 in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

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Score	1.80
Rank	#165	Overall
	#27	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#78	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.82
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/berkeleydb/overview/index.html

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2014

1994

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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