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DBMS > FatDB vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SiteWhere

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.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.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitefauna.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperFatCloudFauna, Inc.MicrosoftSiteWhere
Initial release2012201420152010
Current releaseV1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC#ScalaJava
Server operating systemsWindowshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernonono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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