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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceFauna 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.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
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
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
fauna.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.fauna.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsFauna, Inc.CCRi and othersBaiduMicrosoft
Initial release20232014201420182016
Current release1.0, March 20234.0.5, February 20240.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC++ScalaScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Unix
hosted
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnoyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsTransact SQL
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingdepending on storage layeryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layeryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesvia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoedges in graphno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
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.yesnodepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers, roles and permissionsyes

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