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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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

Technical documentation

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

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.janusgraph.org

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1979

2001

2017

2012

Current release

V12, November 2020

2.7.2, June 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

Java

JavaScript

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

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

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

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java, SQL

yes

no

Triggers

yes

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

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).

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

no

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

yes

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

no

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