DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Fauna vs. mSQL vs. Sadas Engine vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Fauna vs. mSQL vs. Sadas Engine vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

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Score	14.07
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#148	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#68	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#160	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#356	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#52	Key-value stores
	#23	Search engines
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

fauna.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sadasengine.com

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.fauna.com

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Fauna, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

1994

2006

2022

Current release

4.4, October 2021

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

yes, using FoundationDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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