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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb vs. RisingWave

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  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.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.comquasar.aiwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Apache Software FoundationquasardbRisingWave Labs
Initial release20142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201220092022
Current release10 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 20193.14.1, January 20241.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaCJavaScriptC++Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infointeger and binaryStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnoUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers and Roles

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