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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. VoltDB

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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.

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.69
Rank	#167	Overall
	#28	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#78	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.04
Rank	#153	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2010

Current release

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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