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DBMS > Fauna vs. mSQL vs. PlanetScale vs. STSdb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. mSQL vs. PlanetScale vs. STSdb vs. Transbase

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 RDBMSScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlplanetscale.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.complanetscale.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Hughes TechnologiesPlanetScaleSTS Soft SCTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20141994202020111987
Current release4.4, October 20214.0.8, September 2015Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaCGoC#C and C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoproprietary syntaxnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at shard levelnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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