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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Quasardb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
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.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#72  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score78.40
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgfauna.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasequasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.fauna.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFauna, Inc.Microsoftquasardb
Initial release2014201420102009
Current releaseV123.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsTransact SQLno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
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
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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