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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. HyperSQL vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

fauna.com

hsqldb.org

www.sadasengine.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Sybase, SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2014

2001

2006

1993

2008

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

8.0

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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