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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. GridDB vs. RDF4J vs. WakandaDB

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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.

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.15
Rank	#367	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#146	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#194	Overall
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#22	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

griddb.net

rdf4j.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

learn.faircomcorp.com/developers/documentation_directory

docs.griddb.net

rdf4j.org/documentation

doc.wakanda.org/home2.en.html#/Datastore/Introduction.200-588937.en.html

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Toshiba Corporation

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1979

2013

2004

2012

Current release

V12, November 2020

5.1, August 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

none

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).

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

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 at container level

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

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 storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

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Specific characteristics

Achieve Hundreds of Thousands of Transactions Per Second on A Single Database Server...
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GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

Top Features SQL Key-value store and navigational NoSQL API Indexed binary objects...
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Real-time transaction processing solutions leverage FairCom DB because its NoSQL...
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Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Microsoft, UPS, Verizon, Motorola, Commvault, Thomson Reuters, ACI, BNY Mellon, Rockwell...
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Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

From banking and financial transactions, transportation, warehouse automation, package...
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GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Just as the technical aspects of FairCom DB are flexible to meet operation requirements,...
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Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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