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

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  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 RDBMSSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.sadasengine.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Hughes TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.STS Soft SCYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20141994200620112017
Current release4.4, October 20218.04.0.8, September 20152.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaCC++C#C and C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesdepending on used data model
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesnoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonehorizontal partitioningnoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenonenoneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoyes
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Fauna infopreviously named FaunaDBmSQL infoMini SQLSadas EngineSTSdbYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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