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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Fauna vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemFauna 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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitecachelot.iofauna.comhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSpotify
Initial release20152014200820142013
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesNumeric data and Strings
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple rights management via user accounts
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