DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. Cubrid vs. Fauna vs. Heroic vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Cubrid vs. Fauna vs. Heroic vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

fauna.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.fauna.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Fauna, Inc.

Spotify

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2008

2014

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

11.0, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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