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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB

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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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.77
Rank	#157	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#74	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.16
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores

Score	0.95
Rank	#223	Overall
	#17	Time Series DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.ibm.com/cloud/cloudant

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2014

2010

2013

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple password-based access control

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