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System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Fauna vs. Heroic vs. SpatiaLite vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

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

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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Spatial extension of SQLite

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

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

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.coveo.com

fauna.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

docs.fauna.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Coveo

Fauna, Inc.

Spotify

Alessandro Furieri

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2012

2014

2008

2020

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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