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DBMS > Faircom DB vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Riak KV

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBCloud-based data warehousing serviceDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbhsqldb.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouse
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperFairCom CorporationIBMOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release1979200120142009
Current releaseV12, November 20202.7.2, June 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaErlang
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyesno
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++Java, SQLPL/SQL, SQL PLErlang
Triggersyesyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
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).noneyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDACIDno
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Security

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