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System Properties Comparison Apache HBase vs. Fauna vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	22.12
Rank	#27	Overall
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.46
Rank	#145	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#67	Relational DBMS
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	13.15
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

fauna.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.fauna.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Fauna, Inc.

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Initial release

2008

2014

2012

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

yes

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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