DBMS > Coveo vs. Datomic vs. Fauna vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Datomic vs. Fauna vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

docs.datomic.com

docs.fauna.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Coveo

Cognitect

Fauna, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Clojure
Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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