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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. mSQL vs. openGauss vs. PouchDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  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 RDBMSAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiJavaScript 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 DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
pouchdb.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
pouchdb.com/­guidesspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Hughes TechnologiesHuawei and openGauss communityApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation
Initial release20141994201920122014
Current release4.4, October 20213.0, March 20227.1.1, June 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaCC, C++, JavaJavaScriptScala
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-freeyesyesschema-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, triggersANSI SQL 2011noSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP 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
C
C++
Java
JavaScriptJava
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Sharding 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 methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnono

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