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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. HBase vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

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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.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

fauna.com

hbase.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

SAP

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

2008

2010

2003

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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