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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Fauna vs. Galaxybase vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Fauna, Inc.

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2014

2017

2012

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

yes

no

no

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

C and Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

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

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

no

yes

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

no

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

user defined functions

user defined procedures and functions

no

Triggers

yes

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

yes

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

no

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Role-based access control

no

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