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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Hazelcast vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB vs. Solr

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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.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Spatial 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	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

fauna.com

hazelcast.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.scylladb.com

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.scylladb.com

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Hazelcast

SAP

ScyllaDB

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2008

2010

2015

2006

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

SQLScript, R

yes, Lua

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

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

yes

Replicated Map

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Role-based access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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