DBMS > Faircom DB vs. LeanXcale vs. ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. LeanXcale vs. ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. Stardog

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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.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.52
Rank	#226	Overall
	#35	Key-value stores
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#265	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#194	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	122.64
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.50
Rank	#136	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

Technical documentation

learn.faircomcorp.com/developers/documentation_directory

docs.objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.stardog.com

Developer

FairCom Corporation

LeanXcale

ObjectBox Limited

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Stardog-Union

Initial release

1979

2015

2017

2000

2010

Current release

V12, November 2020

3.34.1, January 2021

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

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++

Java

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

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

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

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).

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

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

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

via file-system locks

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

Achieve Hundreds of Thousands of Transactions Per Second on A Single Database Server...
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Full ACID and full SQL operational database with analytical queries over operational...
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Stardog is an Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform, uniquely combining graph storage...
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Competitive advantages

Top Features SQL Key-value store and navigational NoSQL API Indexed binary objects...
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Linear scalability upto 100s of nodes (tested with 100 nodes and TPC-C).
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Stardog provides a full featureset to aid in data integration for your complex data....
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Typical application scenarios

Real-time transaction processing solutions leverage FairCom DB because its NoSQL...
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Hybrid Transactional-Analytical Processing (HTAP) requiring an operational database...
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Stardog is frequently used for: Anti-money laundering & fraud monitoring Customer...
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Key customers

Microsoft, UPS, Verizon, Motorola, Commvault, Thomson Reuters, ACI, BNY Mellon, Rockwell...
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banking/finance/fintech, telco, insurance, traveltech, M2M/IoT, retail
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Bosch, Dow Jones, Elsevier, Ericsson, Morgan Stanley, NASA, NIH, Nokia, Salesforce,...
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Market metrics

From banking and financial transactions, transportation, warehouse automation, package...
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15 beta testers
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Stardog's technology is based on ground-breaking research by our founders cited 10,000+...
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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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annual fee covering license and support based on number of physical cores
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A fully-featured 60-day Trial license is available for those testing Stardog; contact...
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