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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. MySQL vs. SQLite vs. TypeDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.mysql.com

www.sqlite.org

typedb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

typedb.com/docs

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Vaticle

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1979

1995

2000

2016

2009

Current release

V12, November 2020

8.4.0, April 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

easily portable to other OSs

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

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
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

horizontal 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).

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

via file-system locks

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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