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DBMS > Dolt vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PlanetScale

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NameDolt  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaFauna 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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
fauna.comwww.geomesa.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsplanetscale.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolthub.comdocs.fauna.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperDoltHub IncFauna, Inc.CCRi and othersMicrosoftPlanetScale
Initial release20182014201420162020
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesyes
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Implementation languageGoScalaScalaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
PHP
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infocurrently in alpha releaseuser defined functionsnoTransact SQLyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingdepending on storage layerSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Multi-source replicationdepending on storage layeryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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