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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. GeoMesa vs. MarkLogic vs. Sadas Engine

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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.

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational 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	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.geomesa.org

www.marklogic.com

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

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

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

docs.marklogic.com

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

FairCom Corporation

CCRi and others

MarkLogic Corp.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1979

2014

2001

2006

Current release

V12, November 2020

4.0.5, February 2024

11.0, December 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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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

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

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

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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

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, with Range Indexes

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

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

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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