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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Sadas Engine vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Fauna 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 environments

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

trafodion.apache.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

STS Soft SC

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2006

2011

2014

2012

Current release

8.0

4.0.8, September 2015

2.3.0, February 2019

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C++, Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes, via HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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