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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. OrigoDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. SpaceTime

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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.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

origodb.com/docs

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

OpenPie

ScyllaDB

Mireo

Initial release

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

2015

2020

Current release

2.1, January 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Role based authorization

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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