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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparison	GBase  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.	Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Key-value store Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS column oriented	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Document store If a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell Event Store this is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps) Spatial DBMS Search engine support for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine Time Series DBMS see docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #304   Overall #43   Key-value stores #136   Relational DBMS	Score 1.05 Rank #186   Overall #86   Relational DBMS	Score 3.80 Rank #81   Overall #43   Relational DBMS
Website	www.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-db	www.gbase.cn	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	docs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html		docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
Developer	FairCom Corporation	General Data Technology Co., Ltd.	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	1979	2004	2019	1993
Current release	V12, November 2020	GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c	cloud service with continuous releases
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial Restricted, free version available	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language	ANSI C, C++	C, Java, Python
Server operating systems	AIX FreeBSD HP-UX Linux NetBSD OS X QNX SCO Solaris VxWorks Windows easily portable to other OSs	Linux	hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,	yes	Fixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures	yes	yes bool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types	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.	no	yes	yes	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	all fields are automatically indexed	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions	Standard with numerous extensions	Kusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset	yes
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	Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS) RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	.Net C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js and browser) PHP Python Visual Basic	C#	.Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PowerShell Python R	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes .Net, JavaScript, C/C++	user defined functions	Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R	yes
Triggers	yes	yes	yes see docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy	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	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none
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	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no		Spark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark	no
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 Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent	ACID	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes		no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files	yes	Azure Active Directory Authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Recent citations in the news	FairCom Unveils New Look, FairCom DB v13: Introducing 'DB Made Simple' 4 June 2024, Business Wire FairCom kicks off new era of database technology USA - English 10 November 2020, PR Newswire provided by Google News		We’re retiring Azure Time Series Insights on 7 July 2024 – transition to Azure Data Explorer | Azure updates 31 May 2024, Microsoft Update records in a Kusto Database (public preview) | Azure updates 20 February 2024, Microsoft Public Preview: Azure Data Explorer connector for Apache Flink | Azure updates 8 January 2024, Microsoft Announcing General Availability to migrate Virtual Network injected Azure Data Explorer Cluster to Private Endpoints ... 5 February 2024, Microsoft New Features for graph-match KQL Operator: Enhanced Pattern Matching and Cycle Control | Azure updates 24 January 2024, Microsoft provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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