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DBMS > Fauna vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. LokiJS vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Yaacomo

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitefauna.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmaxdb.sap.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperFauna, Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997MicrosoftQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20142014198420152009
Current release7.9.10.12, February 2024V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaScript.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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