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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Fauna vs. Geode vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

fauna.com

geode.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

docs.fauna.com

geode.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

IBM

Initial release

2018

2014

2002

2010

2017

Current release

0.10, February 2024

1.1, February 2017

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Java

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active-active shard 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

yes, on a single node

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

No - written data is immutable

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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