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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. ArangoDB vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

arangodb.com

fauna.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

docs.arangodb.com

docs.fauna.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba

ArangoDB Inc.

Fauna, Inc.

Microsoft

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2014

1989

1999

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

since version 2.0

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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