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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splunk vs. Transbase

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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.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.49
Rank	#142	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#65	Relational DBMS
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	14.41
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	80.56
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#381	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

fauna.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.splunk.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Microsoft

Splunk Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2016

2003

1987

Current release

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

free development license

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

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
Java
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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