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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Informix vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Sadas Engine

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  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 secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things datamSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
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Trend Chart
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.comwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.cominformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
origodb.com/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperFauna, Inc.IBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Hughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et alSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release2014198419942009 infounder the name LiveDB2006
Current release14.10.FC5, November 20204.4, October 20218.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Sourcecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaC, C++ and JavaCC#C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnodepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsnoRole based authorizationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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