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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.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.23
Rank	#343	Overall
	#50	Key-value stores
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	136.72
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#91	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

FairCom Corporation

IBM

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

1979

1983

host version

1984

Current release

V12, November 2020

12.1, October 2016

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free version is available

commercial

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 C++

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

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).

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Source-replica replication

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

ACID

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

Users and groups

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Specific characteristics

Achieve Hundreds of Thousands of Transactions Per Second on A Single Database Server...
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Competitive advantages

Top Features SQL Key-value store and navigational NoSQL API Indexed binary objects...
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Typical application scenarios

Real-time transaction processing solutions leverage FairCom DB because its NoSQL...
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Key customers

Microsoft, UPS, Verizon, Motorola, Commvault, Thomson Reuters, ACI, BNY Mellon, Rockwell...
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Market metrics

From banking and financial transactions, transportation, warehouse automation, package...
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Licensing and pricing models

Just as the technical aspects of FairCom DB are flexible to meet operation requirements,...
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