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DBMS > Fauna vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. SwayDB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#143  Overall
#26  Document stores
#13  Graph DBMS
#66  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitefauna.compostgis.netpouchdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.compostgis.net/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Apache Software FoundationSimer Plaha
Initial release2014200520122018
Current release3.4.2, February 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaCJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnono
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLnono

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