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DBMS > Faircom DB vs. InfinityDB vs. MarkLogic vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. InfinityDB vs. MarkLogic vs. MaxDB

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbboilerbay.comwww.progress.com/­marklogicmaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperFairCom CorporationBoiler Bay Inc.MarkLogic Corp.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release1979200220011984
Current releaseV12, November 20204.011.0, December 20227.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaC++C++
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 VMLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnoyes infoSQL92yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnoneShardingnone
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).noneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID
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.yesnoyes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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