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

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

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFauna 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.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseGeoMesa 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 modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational 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
Websitefauna.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Firebird FoundationCCRi and othersBaiduMicrosoft
Initial release20142000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420182016
Current release5.0.0, January 20244.0.5, February 20240.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageScalaC and C++ScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPSQLnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsTransact SQL
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonedepending on storage layeryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica 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 systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes 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 dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.nodepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers, roles and permissionsyes

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