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DBMS > Fauna vs. mSQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PouchDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. mSQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PouchDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbpouchdb.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbpouchdb.com/­guidesspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Hughes TechnologiesPerconaApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation
Initial release20141994201520122014
Current release4.4, October 20213.4.10-2.10, November 20177.1.1, June 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaCC++JavaScriptScala
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
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
JavaScriptJava
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infovia In-Memory Engineyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesnono

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