DBMS > Fauna vs. Google BigQuery vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Google BigQuery vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. VoltDB

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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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Google

Kyligence, Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2010

2016

2010

Current release

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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