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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Fauna vs. SingleStore vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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.

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#143	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#66	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

fauna.com

www.singlestore.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.fauna.com

docs.singlestore.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Fauna, Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2012

2014

2013

1987

Current release

8.5, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

C++, Go

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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