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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hazelcast vs. PostGIS vs. SingleStore

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A widely adopted in-memory data gridSpatial extension of PostgreSQLMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorehazelcast.compostgis.netwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docspostgis.net/­documentationdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperFairCom CorporationGoogleHazelcastSingleStore Inc.
Initial release19792017200820052013
Current releaseV12, November 20205.3.6, November 20233.4.2, February 20248.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaCC++, Go
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query languageyesyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyes, with Cloud Functionsyes infoEventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infohash partitioning
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 replicationyes infoReplicated Mapyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflowyesnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentyesone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Role-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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Faircom DB infoformerly c-treeACEGoogle Cloud FirestoreHazelcastPostGISSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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