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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. Faircom DB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Microsoft

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2023

1979

2010

1987

Current release

V12, November 2020

V12

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

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

easily portable to other OSs

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

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, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

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

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

yes

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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