DBMS > Faircom DB vs. GBase vs. MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. Oracle NoSQL

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. GBase vs. MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. Oracle NoSQL

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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 relational database management system that stores data in columns

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.gbase.cn

www.monetdb.org

nsdb.io

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

FairCom Corporation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

MonetDB BV

Oracle

Initial release

1979

2004

2017

2011

Current release

V12, November 2020

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C, Java, Python

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

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

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

optional

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
Scala

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

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

Sharding via remote tables

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

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

FairCom kicks off new era of database technology USA - English
10 November 2020, PR Newswire

provided by Google News

In 2024 the MonetDB Foundation was established for the preservation, maintenance and further development of the ...
31 January 2024, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)

MonetDB Secures Investment From (and Partners With) ServiceNow
9 December 2021, Datanami

How MonetDB Exploits Modern CPU Performance | by Dwi Prasetyo Adi Nugroho
14 January 2020, Towards Data Science

PostgreSQL, MonetDB, and Too-Big-for-Memory Data in R - Part II - DataScienceCentral.com
13 June 2018, Data Science Central

MonetDB Solutions secures investment from ServiceNow
30 September 2019, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)

provided by Google News

OpenWorld 2013: Oracle NoSQL Database On the Rise?
13 December 2023, Channel Futures

Blog Theme - Details
21 August 2023, blogs.oracle.com

Oracle NoSQL database comes to the cloud
2 April 2020, TechTarget

Oracle Defends Relational DBs Against NoSQL Competitors
25 November 2015, eWeek

Oracle Adds New AI-Enabling Features To MySQL HeatWave
23 March 2023, Forbes

provided by Google News

Share this page