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DBMS > Fauna vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 PostgreSQLA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitefauna.compostgis.netrockset.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4tempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.compostgis.net/­documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperFauna, Inc.RocksetSTS Soft SCTempoIQ
Initial release20142005201920112012
Current release3.4.2, February 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageScalaCC++C#
Server operating systemshostedhostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesdynamic typingyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.noyesno infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST.NET Client APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingyes infobased on PostgreSQLAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenosimple authentication-based access control

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