DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Fauna vs. GBase vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Fauna vs. GBase vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VoltDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

In-memory caching system

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.

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#64	Key-value stores

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

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

fauna.com

www.gbase.cn

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2015

2014

1993

2010

Current release

GBase 8a

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Java, C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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