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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Transbase

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Name	Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparison	Galaxybase  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.	Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform	Fully managed big data interactive analytics platform	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database model	Key-value store Relational DBMS	Graph 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 0.07 Rank #377   Overall #40   Graph DBMS	Score 3.80 Rank #81   Overall #43   Relational DBMS	Score 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS
Website	www.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-db	galaxybase.com	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentation	docs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html		docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer	FairCom Corporation	Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司	Microsoft	Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release	1979	2017	2019	1987
Current release	V12, November 2020	Nov 20, November 2021	cloud service with continuous releases	Transbase 8.3, 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial Restricted, free version available	commercial	commercial	commercial free development license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language	ANSI C, C++	C and Java		C and C++
Server operating systems	AIX FreeBSD HP-UX Linux NetBSD OS X QNX SCO Solaris VxWorks Windows easily portable to other OSs	Linux	hosted	FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows
Data scheme	schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,	Strong typed schema	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	no	yes	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	all fields are automatically indexed	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions	no	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	Browser interface console (shell) Graph API (Gremlin) OpenCypher Proprietary native API	Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS) RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	.Net C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js and browser) PHP Python Visual Basic	Go Java Python	.Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PowerShell Python R	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes .Net, JavaScript, C/C++	user defined procedures and functions	Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R	yes
Triggers	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	Sharding	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service
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 Implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	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 Relationships in graphs	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent	ACID	no	yes
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	yes	no	no
User concepts Access control	Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files	Role-based access control	Azure Active Directory Authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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