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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

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

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

altibase.com

fauna.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

origodb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.fauna.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Altibase

Fauna, Inc.

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1999

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based authorization

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