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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitefauna.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.sadasengine.comsiridb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.siridb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)SADAS s.r.l.CesbitSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20141984200620172001
Current release7.4.1.1, 20218.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++CC++
Server operating systemshostedHP Open VMSAIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoNumeric datano
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsno

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