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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Fauna (previously named FaunaDB) 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.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.73
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#65	Relational DBMS
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#205	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	52.07
Rank	#21	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

www.kinetica.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.kinetica.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Kinetica

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2014

Current release

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Native and fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs, with memory first...
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Competitive advantages

100% serverless , no connection pooling bottlenecks, or cold starts unlike legacy...
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Best in class geospatial and temporal analytics. Lockless architecture provides real-time...
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Typical application scenarios

Javascript apps Serverless backends for microservices Cloud-native apps B2B and B2C...
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Any application requiring (1) real time insights, (2) time series analysis (3) geospatial...
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Key customers

ShiftX
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Citibank, US Air Force, Softbank, OVO, Telkomsel, USPS, 2 of the top 3 US Telcos,...
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Market metrics

The largest IoT deployment in the world, NORAD, runs on Kinetica.
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Licensing and pricing models

Usage-based pricing including a free tier
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Always Free Tier in the Cloud, Pay-As-You-Go Consumption Based Pricing, and Portable...
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