DBMS > Derby vs. Fauna vs. OpenSearch vs. Splunk vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Fauna vs. OpenSearch vs. Splunk vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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 distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

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

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

fauna.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.splunk.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

docs.fauna.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Fauna, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1997

2014

2021

2003

2009

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication

none

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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