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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OrigoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. VoltDB

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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.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Relational 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	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

origodb.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

origodb.com/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Percona

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

2009

under the name LiveDB

2015

2010

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
Java
PHP

.Net

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

JavaScript

Java

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

depending on model

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

Role based authorization

Access rights for users and roles

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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