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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hazelcast vs. Spark SQL

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFauna 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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A widely adopted in-memory data gridSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.hawkular.orghazelcast.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Chris DavisCommunity supported by Red HatHazelcastApache Software Foundation
Initial release20142006201420082014
Current release5.3.6, November 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaPythonJavaJavaScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP RESTJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesno
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoReplicated Mapnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnonoRole-based access controlno

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