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DBMS > Faircom DB vs. FeatureBase vs. Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. FeatureBase vs. Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.featurebase.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.featurebase.comgraphite.readthedocs.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperFairCom CorporationMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsChris DavisIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MonetDB BV
Initial release19792017200620102004
Current releaseV12, November 20202022, May 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++GoPythonErlangC
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
macOS
Linux
Unix
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesNumeric data onlynoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsSQL queriesnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingnoneShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentyesnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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