DBMS > Faircom DB vs. LokiJS vs. MySQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. LokiJS vs. MySQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.mysql.com

www.sequoiadb.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1979

2014

1995

2013

2014

Current release

V12, November 2020

8.4.0, April 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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