DBMS > Faircom DB vs. GBase vs. HugeGraph vs. SQLite vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. GBase vs. HugeGraph vs. SQLite vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.gbase.cn

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.sqlite.org

vitess.io

Technical documentation

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

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

vitess.io/docs

Developer

FairCom Corporation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Baidu

Dwayne Richard Hipp

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

1979

2004

2018

2000

2013

Current release

V12, November 2020

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.9

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

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++

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

server-less

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Groovy
Java
Python

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

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).

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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

yes

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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