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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. HBase vs. Newts vs. SiriDB vs. STSdb

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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.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

hbase.apache.org

opennms.github.io/newts

siridb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.siridb.com

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

OpenNMS Group

Cesbit

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1979

2008

2014

2017

2011

Current release

V12, November 2020

2.3.4, January 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

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

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

Numeric data

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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).

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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 or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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 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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

simple rights management via user accounts

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