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DBMS > Fauna vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. PlanetScale vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. PlanetScale vs. Splunk

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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 casesScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitefauna.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeplanetscale.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperFauna, Inc.IBMPlanetScaleSplunk Inc.
Initial release2014201720202003
Current release2.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaC and C++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes infowith proprietary extensionsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP REST
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes infoproprietary syntaxyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at shard levelno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
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 concept infono user groups or rolesAccess rights for users and roles

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