DBMS > Fauna vs. Geode vs. Snowflake vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Geode vs. Snowflake vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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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	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

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

Snowflake Computing Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

2002

2014

2001

Current release

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights per client and object definable

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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