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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerfauna.comwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.fauna.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDGraph LabsFauna, Inc.CCRi and others
Initial release2014201720142014
Current release5.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoScalaScala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGoC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingdepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonodepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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