DBMS > Cassandra vs. Fauna vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Fauna vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Splunk

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

cassandra.apache.org

fauna.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.fauna.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Fauna, Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2008

2014

2009

2007

2003

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

configurable

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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 rights for users can be defined per object

Identity management, authentication, and access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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