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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. mSQL

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Vector DBMS
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comhazelcast.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchhughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperFauna, Inc.HazelcastMicrosoftHughes Technologies
Initial release2014200820151994
Current release5.3.6, November 2023V14.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnono
Triggersnoyes infoEventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoReplicated Mapyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlRole-based access controlyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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