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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Fauna vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

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.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#122	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.51
Rank	#141	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#63	Relational DBMS
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#138	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

fauna.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

docs.fauna.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Fauna, Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2014

2008

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual 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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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