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DBMS > FatDB vs. Fauna vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Fauna vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitefauna.compostgis.netspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.compostgis.net/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperFatCloudFauna, Inc.Apache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20122014200520142011
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC#ScalaCScalaC#
Server operating systemsWindowshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infovia applicationsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLnono

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