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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa vs. Splunk

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFauna 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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comfauna.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.fauna.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperFauna, Inc.CCRi and othersSplunk Inc.
Initial release2016201420142003
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonScalaScala
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and roles

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