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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. OpenEdge vs. RethinkDB

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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.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Application development environment with integrated database management system

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.progress.com/openedge

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

FairCom Corporation

CCRi and others

IBM

Progress Software Corporation

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

1979

2014

1984

2009

Current release

V12, November 2020

4.0.5, February 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

range based

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).

depending on storage layer

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

yes

users and table-level permissions

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