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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. Fauna vs. VoltDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.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.Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument 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
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.exasol.comfauna.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.fauna.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffExasolFauna, Inc.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release2014200020142010
Current release11.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaJava, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X infofor development
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsJava
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardIdentity management, authentication, and access controlUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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