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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. MonetDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak KV

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#298  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
#137  Relational DBMS
Score1.78
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.42
Rank#169  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.95
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.monetdb.orgobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.objectbox.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperFairCom CorporationMonetDB BVObjectBox LimitedOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release1979200420172009
Current releaseV12, November 2020Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++CC and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes, in SQL, C, RnoErlang
Triggersyesyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningSharding via remote tablesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
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).none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes, using Riak Security
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