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DBMS > Faircom DB vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Pinecone

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative 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 Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeVector 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
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.gbase.cnazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperFairCom CorporationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.MicrosoftPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release1979200420122019
Current releaseV12, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C, Java, Python
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linuxhostedhosted
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C#.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++user defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
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).yesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
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 integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesyesAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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