Featured Products: Datastax Astra Milvus SingleStore RaimaDB Neo4j

DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Faircom DB vs. FatDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Faircom DB vs. FatDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SQL.JS

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

FairCom Corporation

FatCloud

Microsoft

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2015

1979

2012

2016

2012

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

V13, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

yes

no

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C#

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

no

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C#

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via applications

Transact SQL

no

Triggers

yes

yes

via applications

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

no

yes

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

no

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

no

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

no

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

no

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript
1 December 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

Recent citations in the news

Overhauling Apache Kylin for the cloud
18 November 2021, InfoWorld

Migrating from ClickHouse to Apache Doris: Boosting OLAP Performance
9 October 2023, hackernoon.com

eBay’s Kylin Becomes a Top-Level Apache Open Source Project
9 December 2015, eBay Inc.

Distributed OLAPer Kyligence accelerates core engine, adds real-time data support
10 August 2021, Blocks & Files

How Kyligence Cloud uses Amazon EMR Serverless to simplify OLAP
9 November 2022, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA
8 April 2024, Microsoft

Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support
22 March 2024, Microsoft

Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024
26 March 2024, eWeek

Announcing General Availability of Graph Semantics in Kusto
27 May 2024, Microsoft

Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT
18 October 2023, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

9 Best JavaScript and TypeScript ORMs for 2024
22 March 2023, SitePoint

Running PostgreSQL Inside Your Browser
8 September 2022, iProgrammer

SQLite On The Web: Absurd-sql
24 August 2021, Hackaday

React Native for beginners
31 October 2018, hackernoon.com

10 Low-Code Rules for Serious Coders
21 November 2022, Embedded Computing Design

provided by Google News

Share this page

Featured Products

Present your product here