DBMS > Fauna vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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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.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

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

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

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

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Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Google

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Initial release

2014

2008

2017

2015

1989

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

using Google App Engine

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

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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