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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. FileMaker vs. RethinkDB vs. StarRocks vs. TerarkDB

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.claris.com/­filemakerrethinkdb.comwww.starrocks.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperFairCom CorporationClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release19791983200920202016
Current releaseV12, November 202019.4.1, November 20212.4.1, August 20202.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C++C++, JavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesno
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyes infovia pluginsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
PHPC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
JavaC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesuser defined functionsno
TriggersyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnoneSharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)none
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).Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentnoAtomic single-document operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infousers and table-level permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno

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