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DBMS > Faircom DB vs. Lovefield vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerarkDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Lovefield vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerarkDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperFairCom CorporationGoogleTeradataByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release19792014200520162009
Current releaseV12, November 20202.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Storenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noR packagesnono
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnoneShardingnonenone
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).noneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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