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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. PouchDB vs. Vitess

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbmaxdb.sap.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlpouchdb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperFairCom CorporationSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Hughes TechnologiesApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release19791984199420122013
Current releaseV12, November 20207.9.10.12, February 20244.4, October 20217.1.1, June 201915.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C++CJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyesschema-freeyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesnoView functions in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
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).Source-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDnonoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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