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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Fauna vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	1.31
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#72	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

fauna.com

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.fauna.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Fauna, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2008

2014

2003

Current release

11.0, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

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