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DBMS > EJDB vs. Fauna vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Fauna vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SQL.JS

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)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.Spatial extension of H2Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfauna.comwww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticssql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.fauna.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperSoftmotionsFauna, Inc.CNRSMicrosoftAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20122014201320162012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageCScalaJavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-lesshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaC#
Java
PHP
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infobased on H2Transact SQLno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyes infobased on H2yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infobased on H2yesno

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