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DBMS > Fauna vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Netezza vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Netezza vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzarocksdb.orgwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperFauna, Inc.IBMIBMFacebook, Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20142017200020132014
Current release2.08.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageScalaC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux infoincluded in applianceLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyesnouser defined functions
Triggersnononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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