DBMS > Fauna vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Spark SQL vs. Sqrrl vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Spark SQL vs. Sqrrl vs. TDengine

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed 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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

spark.apache.org/sql

sqrrl.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2014

1989

2014

2012

2019

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

yes

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