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DBMS > Faircom DB vs. GeoMesa vs. Spark SQL vs. Tkrzw vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. GeoMesa vs. Spark SQL vs. Tkrzw vs. Transbase

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative 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.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.geomesa.orgspark.apache.org/­sqldbmx.net/­tkrzwwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFairCom CorporationCCRi and othersApache Software FoundationMikio HirabayashiTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19792014201420201987
Current releaseV12, November 20205.0.0, May 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20230.9.3, August 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++ScalaScalaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nononoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningdepending on storage layeryes, utilizing Spark Corenone
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).depending on storage layernonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layernoyes infousing specific database classesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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