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DBMS > Fauna vs. RDF4J vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. RDF4J vs. RisingWave

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
RDF storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.45
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#13  Graph DBMS
#65  Relational DBMS
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.68
Rank#223  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.75
Rank#214  Overall
#101  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comrdf4j.orgwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.RisingWave Labs
Initial release201420042022
Current release1.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaRust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesStandard 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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnoUsers and Roles

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