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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. Fauna vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. Fauna vs. Ingres

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.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.Well established RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#143  Overall
#26  Document stores
#13  Graph DBMS
#66  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgfauna.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.fauna.comdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerFauna, Inc.Actian Corporation
Initial release2014200820141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release7.2.4, September 201212.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++ScalaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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