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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Hyprcubd vs. OpenEdge vs. SQLite vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sqlite.org

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

1979

1984

2000

2017

Current release

V12, November 2020

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

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

yes

dynamic column types

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC (https)

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

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).

Source-replica replication

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

based on RocksDB

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

token access

Users and groups

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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