DBMS > ClickHouse vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Fauna vs. Tkrzw vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Fauna vs. Tkrzw vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

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.

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

clickhouse.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

fauna.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

docs.fauna.com

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

FairCom Corporation

Fauna, Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2016

1979

2014

2020

2023

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

V3, October 2020

0.9.3, August 2020

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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