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System Properties Comparison FaunaDB vs. Interbase vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

FaunaDB 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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.83
Rank	#123	Overall
	#21	Document stores
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#62	Relational DBMS
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.47
Rank	#57	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#284	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

fauna.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Embarcadero

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

1984

2011

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Interbase Change Views

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Flexible query model that combines GraphQL with custom business logic Effortlessly...
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Competitive advantages

Native GraphQL support with automatic mutations for easy on-ramp Native GraphQL,...
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Typical application scenarios

Javascript apps Serverless backends for microservices Cloud-native apps B2B and B2C...
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Key customers

ShiftX
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Licensing and pricing models

Usage-based pricing including a free tier
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