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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Fauna vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Fauna vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.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.Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#285  Overall
#129  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.postgresql.fastware.commemgraph.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualsmemgraph.com/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerFauna, Inc.PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyMemgraph LtdMicrosoft
Initial release2008201420172016
Current release7.2.4, September 2012Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC++ScalaCC and C++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsTransact SQL
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingpartitioning by range, list and by hashSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsno 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 dataACIDACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsyes
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DrizzleFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBFujitsu Enterprise PostgresMemgraphMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Specific characteristics100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantagesBuilt-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosTransactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Market metricsOver 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCore based licensing
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