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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Fauna vs. Infobright vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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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.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

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	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

fauna.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.fauna.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Fauna, Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2005

2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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