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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. mSQL vs. PostGIS vs. Sadas Engine vs. STSdb

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Name

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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

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

Website

fauna.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

postgis.net

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

postgis.net/documentation

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

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

1994

2005

2006

2011

Current release

4.4, October 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

8.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

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