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DBMS > Fauna vs. Netezza vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Netezza vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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.Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4surrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFauna, Inc.IBMApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SCSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20142000201420112022
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaScalaC#Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnonoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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