G2 Vendor Directory

Spark SQL vs. Fauna

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricSpark SQL

by The Apache Software Foundation

Fauna

by Fauna

Overall rating4.64.4
Review count4625
Ease of use9.18.0
Ease of setup9.08.4
Quality of support8.69.0
Meets requirements9.08.4
NPS69.56521756
Small Business26.1%64.0%
Mid-Market19.6%24.0%
Enterprise54.3%12.0%
Total page views3531
Total LLM citations2085

Spark SQL

Spark SQL lets you query structured data inside Spark programs, using either SQL or a familiar DataFrame API. Usable in Java, Scala, Python and R.

Pros

    Fauna

    Fauna is a truly serverless operational database that empowers teams to ship applications faster. It combines the flexibility of a document model with the strong consistency and rich querying power of relational systems—all built on a serverless, distributed architecture that scales automatically, without the complexity of manual provisioning, sharding, or replication. Over 80,000 development teams choose Fauna to build and scale modern transactional applications including teams from Tyson Foods, Unilever, Lexmark, Intelliculture, Hannon Hill, Cloaked, DTLR, and Insights.gg.

    Pros

    • Scalability
    • Ease of Use
    • Flexibility
    • Reliability
    • Easy Integrations
    • Customer Support