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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. GigaSpaces vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
RDF storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.gigaspaces.comrdf4j.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperFairCom CorporationGigaspaces TechnologiesSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.informationpartners gmbh
Initial release1979200020042015
Current releaseV12, November 202015.5, September 20201.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++Java, C++, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyesyes
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyes, event driven architectureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingnonenone
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).Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
noneyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesRole-based access controlnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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