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Re:Verifying Transactional Consistency with Jepsen and FaunaDB by sandstrom on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:09PM (#17526259)
Interesting to see new DBs cropping up! I think there is much to improve over the choices popular today.

However, it's difficult to quickly grasp what makes Fauna unique. A comparison with e.g. CockroachDB would be nice!

A good example of doing this well is RethinkDB, that provided two comparisons with MongoDB (one biased, one unbiased).

1. Technical comparison (unbiased):

https://rethinkdb.com/docs/comparison-tables/

2. Personal comparison (biased):

https://rethinkdb.com/docs/rethinkdb-vs-mongodb/

Consul (not a DB though) also has these comparisons:

https://www.consul.io/intro/vs/index.html

Re:Verifying Transactional Consistency with Jepsen and FaunaDB by dhruvgupta on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:33PM (#17526904)
Some conversation on CockroachDB vs FaunaDB here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16878102

The primary difference is in the interface (SQL vs NoSQL), the transactional protocol, and capabilities such as built-in multi-tenancy, temporality..

Might be useful to note that GV invested in both (Fauna was after Cockroach).

Re:Verifying Transactional Consistency with Jepsen and FaunaDB by sandstrom on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:53PM (#17544514)
Thanks!