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DBMS > Fauna vs. Hive vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Hive vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. Machbase Neo

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitefauna.comhive.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/machbase.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHypertable Inc.Circonus LLC.Machbase
Initial release20142012200920172013
Current release3.1.3, April 20220.9.8.11, March 2016V0.10.20, January 2018V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC++C and C++C
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes, in Luano
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system levelconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonosimple password-based access control

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