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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. H2 vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.h2database.com

rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Thomas Mueller

Rockset

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1979

2005

2019

2008

Current release

V13, July 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

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

hosted

server-less

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

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

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 REST

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Automatic 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).

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

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

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

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 and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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