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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. EJDB vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. EJDB vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)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.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdruid.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfauna.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.fauna.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorsSoftmotionsFauna, Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20142012201220142016
Current release29.0.1, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaCScalaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
server-lesshostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
in-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsTransact SQL
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes

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