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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Databricks vs. Fauna vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

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.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	78.61
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

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

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.databricks.com

fauna.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.databricks.com

docs.fauna.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Databricks

Fauna, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2019

2013

2014

2010

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Python
R
Scala

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

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