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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Faircom DB vs. SQLite vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#311	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.sqlite.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Exasol

FairCom Corporation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2000

1979

2000

2011

Current release

V12, November 2020

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

server-less

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

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

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Sharding

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).

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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