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DBMS > Faircom DB vs. Firebolt vs. GridDB vs. LokiJS vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Firebolt vs. GridDB vs. LokiJS vs. Memcached

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataIn-memory JavaScript DBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.firebolt.iogriddb.netgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.firebolt.iodocs.griddb.nettechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperFairCom CorporationFirebolt Analytics Inc.Toshiba CorporationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release19792020201320142003
Current releaseV12, November 20205.1, August 20221.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
hostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampnono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyesSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingnonenone
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).depending on storage layerSource-replica replicationnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACID at container levelno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.no
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol
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Faircom DB infoformerly c-treeACEFireboltGridDBLokiJSMemcached
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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