DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

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.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#72	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

fauna.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.fauna.com

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Fauna, Inc.

Microsoft

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2014

2010

2001

2011

Current release

V12

3.5.1, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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