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System Properties Comparison FaunaDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Redis

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Name

Description

Strongly consistent database capable of global horizontal scale with a focus on operational simplicity

In-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker info

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store info

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Secondary database models

Document store info

with Redis Modules
Graph DBMS info

with Redis Modules
Search engine info

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS info

with Redis Modules

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Score	0.61
Rank	#191	Overall
	#29	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#93	Relational DBMS
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.00
Rank	#151	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	145.24
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Website

fauna.com

www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/rdb/overview/index.html

redis.io

Technical documentation

fauna.com/documentation

redis.io/documentation

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Salvatore Sanfilippo info

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

Initial release

2014

1984

2009

Current release

5.0.6, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

HP Open VMS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows info

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

XML support info

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

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol info

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning info

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Masterless

Master-slave replication info

Chained replication is supported
Multi-master replication info

with Redis Enterprise Pack

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Simple password-based access control info

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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