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DBMS > Faircom DB vs. GridDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. GridDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Spark SQL

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative 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 DataThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbgriddb.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.griddb.nethelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperFairCom CorporationToshiba CorporationSAP, SybaseApache Software Foundation
Initial release1979201319872014
Current releaseV12, November 20205.1, August 202216.03.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C++C and C++Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JDBC
ODBC
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
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noJava and Transact-SQLno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
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).Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACID at container levelACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes
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 filesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Faircom DB infoformerly c-treeACEGridDBSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASESpark SQL
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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