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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataSpatial extension of SQLiteKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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Score1.63
Rank#155  Overall
#28  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#70  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.01
Rank#201  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.98
Rank#140  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#344  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitefauna.comrockset.comwww.snowflake.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.rockset.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperFauna, Inc.RocksetSnowflake Computing Inc.Alessandro FurieriSTS Soft SC
Initial release20142019201420082011
Current release5.0.0, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaC++C++C#
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedserver-lessWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenodynamic typingyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedyesno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingAutomatic shardingyesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnono

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