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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. Yaacomo

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
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.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitefauna.comwww.snowflake.comsphinxsearch.comsqream.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.SQream TechnologiesQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20142014200120172009
Current release3.5.1, February 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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