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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Fauna vs. HugeGraph vs. Sqrrl vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Fauna vs. HugeGraph vs. Sqrrl vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFauna 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.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgfauna.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
sqrrl.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.fauna.comhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFauna, Inc.BaiduAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.VictoriaMetrics
Initial release20142014201820122018
Current release0.9v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
macOS
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Groovy
Java
Python
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor infomaking use of HadoopSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlUsers, roles and permissionsCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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