DBMS > Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Trino

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Name

Description

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.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.geomesa.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

1989

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

depending on storage layer

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

depending on storage layer

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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