DBMS > Faircom DB vs. H2 vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. H2 vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine

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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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.h2database.com

rocksdb.org

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Thomas Mueller

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1979

2005

2015

2013

2006

Current release

V12, November 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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).

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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