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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. MarkLogic vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDFox vs. Trino

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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.

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	4.15
Rank	#70	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#8	Search engines

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.progress.com/marklogic

www.postgres-xl.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

trino.io

Technical documentation

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

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

FairCom Corporation

MarkLogic Corp.

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

1979

2001

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2017

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

V13, July 2024

11.0, December 2022

10 R1, October 2018

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI 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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

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

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

RDF schemas

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL92

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

user defined functions

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

depending on connected data-source

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

replication via a shared file system

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

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 stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

depending on connected data-source

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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

MVCC

ACID

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Roles, resources, and access types

SQL standard access control

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