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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Faircom DB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	BigObject  Xexclude from comparison	Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparison	Google Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries	Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.	A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed	Key-value store Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.19 Rank #329   Overall #146   Relational DBMS	Score 0.29 Rank #304   Overall #43   Key-value stores #136   Relational DBMS	Score 2.84 Rank #100   Overall #51   Relational DBMS
Website	bigobject.io	www.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-db	cloud.google.com/­spanner	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	docs.bigobject.io	docs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html	cloud.google.com/­spanner/­docs
Developer	BigObject, Inc.	FairCom Corporation	Google	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2015	1979	2017	1993
Current release		V12, November 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free community edition available	commercial Restricted, free version available	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language		ANSI C, C++
Server operating systems	Linux distributed as a docker-image OS X distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker) Windows distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)	AIX FreeBSD HP-UX Linux NetBSD OS X QNX SCO Solaris VxWorks Windows easily portable to other OSs	hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures	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	SQL-like DML and DDL statements	yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions	yes Query statements complying to ANSI 2011	yes
APIs and other access methods	fluentd ODBC RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET Direct SQL JDBC JPA ODBC RESTful HTTP/JSON API RESTful MQTT/JSON API RPC	gRPC (using protocol buffers) API JDBC At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements. RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages		.Net C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js and browser) PHP Python Visual Basic	Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Lua	yes .Net, JavaScript, C/C++	no	yes
Triggers	no	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding Customizable business rules for table partitioning	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).	Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes using Google Cloud Dataflow	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes automatically between fact table and dimension tables	yes	yes by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent	ACID Strict serializable isolation	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	no	Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files	Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	BigObject	Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE	Google Cloud Spanner	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
Recent citations in the news		FairCom kicks off new era of database technology USA - English 10 November 2020, PR Newswire provided by Google News	Google's Cloud Spanner Now Spans Continents … Like It's Supposed to Do 31 May 2024, Data Center Knowledge Google Improves Cloud Spanner: More Compute and Storage without Price Increase 14 October 2023, InfoQ.com Google turns up the heat on AWS, claims Cloud Spanner is half the cost of DynamoDB 11 October 2023, TechCrunch Google makes its Cloud Spanner database service faster and more cost-efficient 11 October 2023, SiliconANGLE News Google Spanner: When Do You Need to Move to It? 11 September 2023, hackernoon.com provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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