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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. ScyllaDB vs. SQLite vs. Trino vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Fauna 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.

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.scylladb.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

www.xtdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

ScyllaDB

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Trino Software Foundation

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2015

2000

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2019

Current release

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

depending on connected data-source

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Lua

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

depending on connected data-source

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

depending on connected data-source

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

depending on connected data-source

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

SQL standard access control

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