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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. LeanXcale vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake vs. Trino

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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.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.rockset.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

LeanXcale

Rockset

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2015

2019

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
Java
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Automatic sharding

yes

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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

SQL standard access control

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