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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RocksDB vs. TDengine

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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.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

rocksdb.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

FairCom Corporation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

1979

2016

2013

2019

Current release

V12, November 2020

5.10, January 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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