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DBMS > Fauna vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. Transbase

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.gbase.cnazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchnsdb.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFauna, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.MicrosoftTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142004201520171987
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cV1Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaC, Java, PythonJava, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyesyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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